The Florida band are sharing 'Frozen', the latest track to emerge from new album Snowdonia, due out February 3 through Joyful Noise/Secretly Canadian. Previous singles have included ‘Six Flags in F or G’, one of the darker songs on the album, and ‘Matter of Time’, a classic Surfer Blood pop song. Surfer Blood will be over for a London Oslo headline on March 23, with further UK shows due to be announced very soon.

Snowdonia is the first Surfer Blood album to be written and mixed solely by frontman John Paul Pitts since their breakout debut Astro Coast. It's also the band's first release since the loss of guitarist Thomas Fekete to cancer last year. It finds the band tackling heavy themes like mortality and raging through longer, more complex songs, while still incorporating plenty of their signature pop hooks.

Snowdonia was written specifically with the band's current lineup and new strengths in mind: wanting to play up guitarist Michael McCleary and bassist Lindsey Mills' vocal skills, Pitts wrote layers of vocals into almost every track and added call-and-response parts between himself and Mills throughout the album. With enormous attention to detail, the eight tracks on Snowdonia make the album Surfer Blood's most ambitious release yet.

Listen to 'Frozen' here

March 23 – London, Oslo

Manchester’s idiosyncratic art-popologists Dutch Uncles return with Big Balloon, their new studio album, on 17th February (Memphis Industries). Today, the band shares album standout ‘Oh Yeah’. The track features backing vocals from Stealing Sheep and Everything Everything.

Lead vocalist Duncan Wallis explains the positive sentiment behind ‘Oh Yeah’ - "as soon as you are back to emotional zero, BAM! Opportunity knocks. Perhaps not in the way you thought it would, but a connection all the same, and the realisation genuinely carefree times are right there in your palm.”

Taking musical inspiration from Kate Bush's The Red Shoes, Low-era David Bowie, some other slightly-less fashionable records belonging to their Dads and the Eastern European techno discovered by Richards while working in Ukraine last year, the subjects tackled on Big Balloon include austerity cuts, therapy, fried chicken, paranoia and coming to terms with loneliness. It's the fifth Dutch Uncles studio album and the follow-up to 2015's acclaimed O Shudder.

Dutch Uncles recently announced a tour for 2017, bringing their unique art-pop manoeuvres to UK venues. The run culminates in two special nights at London’s Village Underground and Manchester’s Dancehouse Theatre (on 13th and 15th March, respectively).

Dutch Uncles 2017 Tour

18 February – Manchester, Piccadilly Record (instore / outstore) @ Old Granada Studios

20 February – Nottingham, Rough Trade (instore)

21 February – London Rough Trade East (instore)

22 February - Bristol, Rise (instore)

01 March - Edinburgh, Electric Circus

02 March - Newcastle, The Cluny

03 March - Leeds, The Wardrobe

04 March - Nottingham, Bodega

06 March - Birmingham, Hare and Hounds

07 March - Sheffield, The Plug

08 March - Oxford, O2 Academy2

09 March - Bristol, Fleece

11 March - Brighton, The Haunt

12 March - Southampton, Talking Heads

13 March - London, Village Underground

15 March - Manchester, Dancehouse Theatre

All tickets now available from the band's official website.

Listen to ‘Oh Yeah’ here