New album 'Greeting from Your Hometown' is out on 8th August - I'd completely missed that news!

I feel like the are bit by bit slipping under the radar, which is a shame as I think they have been quite solid since their comeback.

There's a couple of collabs on the album: Dean Lewis on 'Loved You Better' and Switchfoot on the title track!

The deluxe song ‘Tantrum’ is a bop 🥹

Edited August 15, 2025Aug 15 by Lee_J11

On 15/08/2025 at 20:39, Lee_J11 said:

The deluxe song ‘Tantrum’ is a bop 🥹

Agreed

I still find it very bizarre how this album missed the top 100 (even in the Monday mids) when the previous two were #2 and #3, there's just no reason for their fanbase to have evaporated like that

Didn't even know this album was coming! 'The Album' felt a lot bigger, especially on the promo side. Did they even promote this release here with anything? Radio 2 or The One Show would've probably lapped them up and got them a few sales had they done an appearance on either of those. Radio 2 have been A Listing the singles but it would seem they lost out to Craig David on the Album of the Week slot.

Why did a lot the sales from the album get disqualified? Does anyone even know?

To be fair, I think they lost a lot of goodwill from fans when they suddenly decided to postpone all of their tour dates last minute in favour of other opportunities too. But that aside, this whole rollout has seemed a bit messy and less of a concerted effort to actually achieve anything compared to Happiness Begins and The Album.

I've given it a listen and while the singles are enjoyable and there are a few good tracks (hello Bully and Tantrum, bops) this is a bit of a nosedive from where they were coming back in a big way with Happiness Begins; an album with literally zero skips.

7 minutes ago, DanielCarey said:

Why did a lot the sales from the album get disqualified? Does anyone even know?

Has anyone actually got a credible source for it? I can see a mention of it in the Sales thread but not backed up with where it's from if it's even true.. The album is there on the Sales Chart at #26 so it definitely "sold" something

Edited August 18, 2025Aug 18 by lewistgreen

I've been listening to the album this morning and it's really good. The sort of AC music I really do love as it's catchy as heck. A real shame it didn't chart.

Agreed - their best album since 2019 for me. (I’ve not listened to their older stuff much)