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Albums Of The Week: The Subways | Uncertain Joys

Armed with a new drummer, some synthesizers and eight years of life experience, the British indie trio re-emerge moodier, mellowe and more mature on their fifth release.

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “U.K. indie-punk favourites The Subways are delighted to reveal their fifth studio album Uncertain Joys, cementing their rightful place as one of the most exciting bands on the current touring circuit, thrilling crowds with their explosive rock sound and wild stage performances.

Uncertain Joys was recorded and produced by singer-guitarist Billy Lunn in his brand new Hertfordshire studio, mixed by the Grammy Award-winning Adrian Bushby (Muse, Foo Fighters, Everything Everything), and mastered by Katie Tavini (Mykki Blanco, Arlo Parks, Nadine Shah).

Formed in 2002, by now The Subways should need no introduction. Nearly 20 years into their career the band have had multiple chart-worthy album releases including Young For Eternity (2005), All Or Nothing (2008), Money And Celebrity (2011) and The Subways (2015), spawning a slew of hit singles including Rock & Roll Queen, Oh Yeah, Girls & Boys and We Don’t Need Money To Have A Good Time.

They have toured with AC/DC, Foo Fighters and Oasis, appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman and Late Night with Conan O’Brien, graced the festival main stages of Glastonbury, Reading and Leeds, Lollapalooza, Download, Soundwave, Hurricane & Southside, Rock Im Park, Rock Am Ring and many more, worked with Nirvana and Garbage super-producer Butch Vig, as well as Blur and The Smiths mastermind Stephen Street, and appeared in several major films and videogames including Guy Ritchie’s Rock’N’Rolla, American smash-hit TV drama The OC, and Colin McCrae: DiRT 2, Saint’s Row 2, Fifa Street 2, Forza Horizon.”