Texas release new album and announce November tour to celebrate their 25th anniversary | Artist News

TEXAS will release their brand new studio album ‘The Conversation’ through [PIAS] Recordings on May 20^th 2013. Watch the new video for "The Conversation " here..

Following the album release, Texas will return with a full UK November tour. Texas’s eighth album, ‘The Conversation’ is their first in eight years and is the latest in a career that has seen the band sell over 30 million albums worldwide with a succession of multi-platinum albums ‘White on Blonde’, ‘The Hush’ and ‘Greatest Hits’. This overdue return in 2013 clearly redefines and confidently re-introduces the band afresh with tracks written and produced by singer/guitarist Sharleen Spiteri and bassist Johnny McElhone and featuring collaborations with singer-songwriter Richard Hawley and Bernard Butler.

‘The Conversation’ is an album splitting its seams with the joy of a long-proven pop force creating a collection of songs rich enough in melody and emotion to deserve filing beside the best of the band’s previous million-selling hits. The album was recorded in Glasgow, London and at Richard Hawley’s studio in Sheffield where the seven tracks he worked on went on to form the backbone of ‘The Conversation’: a perfect marriage of Hawley’s 50s rock’n’roll frills and the timeless Texas magnetism to cast-iron melodies.

Full UK tour dates:

Saturday 9^th November York, Barbican

Sunday 10^th November Inverness, Leisure Centre

Monday 11^th November Manchester, Bridgewater Hall

Wednesday 13^th November Bristol, Colston Hall

Thursday 14^th November London, Hammersmith Apollo

Friday 15^th November Plymouth, Pavilions

Sunday 17^th November Oxford, Apollo

Monday 18h November Birmingham, Symphony Hall

Tuesday 19^th November Southend, Cliffs Pavilion

Thursday 21^st November Brighton, Dome

Friday 22^nd November Portsmouth, Guildhall