Penelope Isles will release  their new album 3 on September 25 via Bella Union. To accompany today’s announcement Penelope Isles have shared the album’s lead-single “Thinking Seat”, a track about overthinking whilst in the driving seat. Written upon reflection of the thousands of hours spent behind the wheel in the Wolter sibling’s sprinter van, the track is a spiralling sequence of worry, heartache, planning, remembering, forgetting, holding it together, staying on track and trying to find a goddamn parking space. The song features the lyric ‘U.G.A.K.I’ (you guys are killing it), a catchphrase the band coined, used when touring felt particularly tough/skint/dirty/ridiculous, in the hope of injecting light humour and positivity into the uphill struggle that is the current state of the music industry.

3 is a record of firsts for the UK band, the first as a true three-piece, with close friend Joe Taylor (Anna B Savage, Iona Zajac).  The album was written on a monthlong surf trip to Lagos, Portugal,. A year later, the band flew to the Isle of Lewis off Scotland’s northwest coast to record the album live at Black Bay Studio. Still obsessed with love, with heartbreak, with what lingers after, Penelope Isles carve out something new here. A shifting coastline of sound: hazy, luminous, and always on the verge of collapse. “Penny Isles is such a big part of our personalities,” says Jack. “So it was about time we got back to it.”

Penelope Isles
3
tracklisting

1. Another Kind Of Love
2. I Loved You Robert Pattinson
3. Bom-Bane’s
4. Birthdays
5. Embo
6. Pretty In Pixels
7. Moonwalker
8. You This You Got A Way With Dogs
9. Thinking Seat
10. Am I Going Through This On My Own

pre-order 3 by Penelope Isles HERE