TV Priest recently announced new album Cartoons for release on 6th November via AMK / Kartel Music Group. Today the band shares a new single ‘Just So you Know’, alongside a run of UK headline tour dates. These arrive in early 2027, after the TV Priest’s release week UK instore shows, and a newly-announced Halloween show at London’s Blondie’s as special guests to Crows.
View full details of the TV Priest’s upcoming shows below. Tickets are on sale here.
TV Priest have now shared three new songs this year, including the abrasive, shapeshifting ‘The Mud Never Dries‘, and the brooding ‘Love Song (A Good Kind of Weapon)‘. Opening to solemn strings, today’s new single ‘Just So You Know’ quickly morphs into a groove-heavy, muscular indie burner. Layers of instrumentation twist, melt, and reconstitute themselves around poignant and hook-led vocals, once again highlighting both the subtle compositional intricacies of Cartoons as well as their forthright approach to songwriting.
Talking about the new single, TV Priest’s vocalist Charlie Drinkwater says: “‘Just So You Know’ is a break up song, only the other half is technology. I’m scrolling before I’ve even really had a single thought of my own. The stress sits in my stomach like bad coffee and the people I love get whatever attention is left over.
And there’s a sweetness to it, and that’s the trouble. Always connected, always ticking things off a to do list that never gets any shorter. Little sugar hits all day long until the crash. The song pokes at that and it asks the question I keep swerving: is any of this actually any good for me? Is it good for any of us?”
Through two previous albums (2021’s Uppers, 2022’s My Other People), TV Priest have stood out as a probing, curious group with a talent for wrapping their arms around the existential, and connecting the disconnected. Cartoons emerges from the wreckage of self-reckoning, finding new ways of being, and writing music from a different starting point.
The result is a record with surprising shades of REM, Radiohead, The National and Foals – the fire and philosophising of their previous work still present, but now accompanied by a bigger sprawl of gentler instruments. Piano. Fiddle. Bird song recordings ruptured and pieced back together again, “exploring the intersection between digitalism and nature.” Everything was on the table as they rewired their sound.
Continuing about TV Priest’s forthcoming album Cartoons, he says: “Cartoons is a record about confusion. About the small, daily unspooling of the worlds we thought we knew, and the strange new ones being born in their slipstream. About heroes and villains and the increasingly thin and trembling line between them. About surveillance and sanctuary, and where, exactly, a person is allowed to disappear. About me, and sometimes about you.
Cartoons began in slowing down. Alex Sprogis and I wrote it over two quiet years, and somewhere in that time we stopped guarding our front door. We let the room get crowded with collaborators, friends, and a wider cast of players. The songs grew louder and stranger and more tender for it. It is the most communal thing we’ve ever made, and the most exposed.
It is also, somehow, our most direct record and our most expansive. The songs come for you quicker now; the choruses are not embarrassed to mean what they say. But underneath, the ground has shifted. American alt rock leans against electronic production. Alex’s guitars run into programmed drums, organic field recordings, digital data samples, and a low end that takes cues from dance production. And for the first time, I stopped being afraid to sing; to carry a melody out in the open, unguarded, without the old reflex to undercut or hide something. There is hiss and choir, machine and breath.
If we used to point the lens outward, this time we turned it back on ourselves. Cartoons is more personally political: a record about how I try, and very often fail, to move through late capitalism, work, family, love and the long weather of my own interior. There is anger in it, but also tenderness; and grief that has stopped lying to itself. Not resolution. Just company, out in the noisy world.”
Pre-order/pre-save new album Cartoons HERE.
TV Priest UK 2026 shows
31st Oct – Blondies, London ^
6th Nov – Rough Trade Denmark Street, London (two performances instore)
7th Nov – Crash, Leeds (instore)
8th Nov – Jacaranda, Liverpool (instore)
9th Nov – Rough Trade, Bristol (instore)
11th Nov – Banquet x Fighting Cocks, Kingston (instore)
12th Nov – Pie & Vinyl, Southsea (instore)
^ = Special Guests to Crows
TV Priest UK headline tour dates 2027
25 Jan 2027 – The Louisiana, Bristol, UK
26 Jan 2027 – Hare & Hounds 2, Birmingham, UK
27 Jan 2027 – The George Tavern, London, UK
28 Jan 2027 – Green Door Store, Brighton, UK
30 Jan 2027 – The Abbey, Manchester, UK
31 Jan 2027 – McChuills, Glasgow, UK
01 Feb 2027 – Oporto, Leeds, UK
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