Del Amitri have penned an anti-Brexit anthem on their forthcoming seventh studio album, Fatal Mistakes, due 30 April. Frontman Justin Currie explains: “Close Your Eyes And Think Of England is our European valediction, a ballad of pure bile and remorse, sweetened by a sledgehammer of sarcasm.”
The LP was made over three weeks last March, at an English stately home resulting in the band’s first studio record since 2002’s Can You Do Me Good? “A fine time was had by all,” adds Currie. “It’s a collection of bizarre tales of poisoning, pleading and bitter acceptance, powered by guitars, drums and keyboards played entirely by the quintet who had such enormous fun on the road in 2014 and 2018.”