Nine years on from the release of their last outing Loud Like Love, Placebo’s 8th album Never Let Me Go is confirmed for release on 25th March 2022. In September, Placebo resurfaced from a long hibernation to release their first single in five years – and first from the new album - ‘Beautiful James’. A joyous and celebratory song, it came quietly loaded with antagonism for the increasingly prominent, ignorant, factions that have come to litter modern conversation. As Brian Molko commented at the time, “If the song serves to irritate the squares and the uptight, so gleefully be it.”

As great masters in cataloguing the human condition, Placebo’s unique way of examining both its flaws and beauty finds fertile ground in 2021. Crawling out of the pandemic into a landscape of intolerance, division, tech-saturation and imminent eco catastrophe, theirs is a voice that has rarely felt more significant to contemporary discourse, and more appropriate to sing these stories to the world.

A1. Forever Chemicals
A2. Beautiful James
A3. Hugz
B1. Happy Birthday In The Sky
B2. The Prodigal
B3. Surrounded By Spies
C1. Try Better Next Time
C2. Sad White Reggae
C3. Twin Demons
C4. Chemtrails
D1. This Is What You Wanted
D2. Went Missing
D3. Fix Yourself