Mystery Jets share two new tracks ahead of seventh album

London quartet Mystery Jets have offered two new tracks, “Flea Joint” and “Anaglypta,” as a double A-side single — the latest preview of their seventh album, A Hole To See The Sky Through, due 21 August via Fiction Records. It follows the band’s 2020 LP A Billion Heartbeats.

Frontman Blaine Harrison explained that “Flea Joint” grew from hot summer-night improvisations over jittery, skippy loops. He cited the gradual refinement of Can or Fela Kuti, but said an 80s Manchester undertone eventually pulled the sound closer to home. “Anaglypta,” named after the Victorian textured wallpaper once used to mask shabby interiors, became a metaphor for domestic stasis and the desire to escape. Harrison said the band aimed for an uplifting atmosphere, picturing a flight over moonlit rooftops in search of a personal Neverland.

The band will take the new material directly to fans with an in-store tour this August, crossing Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, Leeds, London and more, before a full November headline run that includes stops in Manchester, London, Portsmouth and Dublin.