- 2025-08-19
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MUSIC
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The Charlatans Drops New Music Video for “We Are Love”
British rock band The Charlatans, consisting of Martin Blunt (bass), Tim Burgess (vocals), Mark Collins (guitar), Tony Rogers (keyboards), will release their 14th studio album “We Are Love” on October 31, 2025.
This marks their first album in eight years since the 2017 album “Different Days”.
From the album, the band released the album title track “We Are Love” on July 14, 2025. The song received its first play during BBC Radio 6 music.
On August 18, the band dropped a new music video for the song.
The track was written by Mark Collins, Martin Blunt, Tim Burgess, and Tony Rogers. Produced by Devonté Hynes and Fred Macpherson.
The band frontman Tim Burgess told Virgin Radio UK about the song, “We were all in the rehearsal room in the northwest of England. And Tony has this riff and we all kind of like just latched on to it straight away. This like occasionally that will happen. Most of the time it's like trying to find something that we all like, but this was just instantly something that we all liked. And I kind of came up with melody quite quickly and Peter Salisbury was there, tapping away and it just seems to be one of the songs, one of those songs that kind of came to us quite easily.”- He added, “To feel love you have to let your inhibitions go. That’s what’s happening here - at first the kids represent what keeps us tethered and then move towards euphoria which is what life is all about. The moment we let love in and accept ourselves is when we can stand alone and become love. It’s also people on a dancefloor having a brilliant time which is never a bad thing.”
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The new album comprises 11 tracks. This time, the band recorded the album at Rockfield Studios in Wales for the first time in almost 30 years.
Tim Burgess said of the album, “The whole idea of hauntology and psychogeography is represented by us going back to Rockfield, where so much history has happened for the Charlatans. That was important as a way of honoring every member who’s played in the band. So we’re honouring ourselves, our past, feeling that energy and reincarnating it, doing something fresh, brand new.”
Photo by Cat Stevens - source : Apple Music
