Photo Credit: Joe Quigg

After ending a four-year silence with the towering, reverb-soaked return of ‘Black Sage’ last week, cult London outfit Mystery Jets have announced their seventh studio album, A Hole To See The Sky Through. The record lands on 21st August via Fiction Records.

Named after Yoko Ono’s celebrated conceptual artwork of the same title, the album arrives with the artist’s original piece—a white postcard punctured by a single circular cut-out—featured on its cover, reproduced with Ono’s personal permission. Across its nine tracks, A Hole To See The Sky Through finds Mystery Jets confronting uncertainty with imagination, optimism and the kind of soaring, melodic songwriting that has defined the band across two decades of British indie.

Alongside the announcement, the band have unveiled another taste of the album with its opening track and title piece, ‘A Hole To See The Sky Through I’. Built around the band’s unmistakable knack for infectious hooks and an instantly memorable chorus, it’s a triumphant introduction to the record that feels certain to resonate with longtime fans.

Like ‘Black Sage’, the new single arrives with a live performance video filmed inside James Turrell’s Skyspace at Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens. Both visuals were directed by James Slater, whose previous collaborators include Yard Act, Blossoms and Sam Fender.

A Hole To See The Sky Through

Out 21st August on Fiction Records

Tracklisting:

A Hole To See The Sky Through I
Black Sage

Doomsday Waltz

God Rays

Flea Joint

Long Lonely Road

Soul River

Anaglypta

A Hole To See The Sky Through II