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Nothing But Thieves sound like: they’re about to drop their game-changing second album on everyone in the next week

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Their story: Nothing But Thieves are five chaps from Southend – Conor, Joe, Dom, Price and Phil – who fortunately are substantially more than just thieves, if that’s what they even are.

They released their debut self-titled album back in 2015 and, following selling over 250,000 copies and stream over 174 million times, the last 18 months have been ridiculous for the five guys.


The band spent a big chunk of 2016 in the US, whereby they became the biggest selling UK rock band in that country that year as well as playing high-profile performances on late night shows such as Jimmy Kimmel, Conan O’Brien and James Corden.



They are now gearing up to release their second album called Broken Machine on 8 September, from which they have today revealed the video for the title track, exclusive to metro.co.uk below.

What’s so great about them? Nothing But Thieves have more accolades racked up over the last couple of years than you’ve had conversations about Brexit. Which is a lot, no doubt.

Alongside those impressive sales and streaming plaudits, the band have toured pretty much everywhere from America to Japan, including South Korea where they ended up playing to over 20,000 people.

Radio has also been kind to the Southend quintet who have enjoyed on their last two singles shooting straight onto Radio 1’s playlist, meaning that this album they’re about to release is set up rather nicely.

All in all this means they’ve rallied up a rather sizable fanbase, and alongside all this industry support, the general idea is that their new album is set to do very well indeed.

Most-streamed track on Spotify: Trip Switch (over 24 million listens so far)

Most-recent video (EXCLUSIVE):

What will they be doing for the rest of this year? Nothing But Thieves’ new album Broken Machine comes out on Friday 8 September. To celebrate, they’re heading out on their biggest UK headline tour to date, including two stints at London’s Roundhouse which you can check out below.

Signed to: RCA

Upcoming live dates:

5 November – Newcastle, 02 Academy

7 November – Glasgow, 02 Academy

8 November – Manchester, Albert Hall

9 November – Sheffield, 02 Academy

10 November – Nottingham, Rock City

11 November – Liverpool, 02 Academy

13 November – Bristol, 02 Academy

14 November – Norwich, UEA

15 November –Southampton, 02 Guildhall

17 November – London, Roundhouse

18 November – London, Roundhouse

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