With a massive tour schedule already mapped out, it was only a matter of time before M83 officially announced their long-awaited follow-up to 2011’s Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming. Today, mastermind Anthony Gonzalez confirmed the new album’s title and release date: Junk will arrive on April 8th release through Mute Records. He’s also shared the lead single and opening track, “Do It, Try It”.

Junk reunites Gonzalez’s Grammy-nominated synthpop band with Dreaming producer Justin Meldal-Johnsen. The album does not, however, feature longtime keyboards/backup vocalist Morgan Kibby, who left the band prior to recording sessions. Gonzalez is actually crowdsourcing her replacement for the upcoming tour supporting Junk, holding auditions for all would-be musicians.



Even without Kibby, Junk promises a slew of “unexpected guests,” according to Gonzalez. Among them: Beck and Susanne Sundfør.

Gonzalez has said that the new album takes inspiration from TV shows of yore “like Punky Brewster and Who’s the Boss. I feel like TV shows are starting to sound and look the same. There’s no more passion anymore. So this album is a tribute to those old-fashioned shows.”

As for the title, Gonzalez said in a statement, “Anything we create today is going to end up being space junk at one point anyway, and I find it really fascinating and scary at the same time – beautiful too in a way. I have this image of pieces of humanity floating in space, lost forever. It also means that nowadays everything goes so fast and everybody is kind of throwing away art in a certain manner. People will listen to an album for instance and just pick a track they like to put on a playlist. They’re not going to take the time to listen to an album anymore because they have to jump on the next thing.”

Listen to “Do It, Try It” below. The album’s artwork and tracklist follows.

Update — March 4th, 3:32 p.m. CT: After holding open auditions, M83 have finally selected Kaela Sinclair to replace vocalist Morgan Kibby on their upcoming tour. “It was really difficult to choose a new singer for the band but when I saw @kaelasinclair it was obvious she would be perfect!” Gonzalez tweeted this afternoon.

It was really difficult to choose a new singer for the band but when I saw @kaelasinclair it was obvious she would be perfect! *A — M83 (@m83news) March 4, 2016

Feeling so extremely fortunate to be joining M83 for a world tour! This is gonna be so fabulous. ????????????@m83news https://t.co/MID16UAVMD — Kaela Sinclair (@kaelasinclair) March 4, 2016

Junk Artwork:

Junk Tracklist:

01. Do It, Try It

02. Go!

03. Walkway Blues

04. Bibi the Dog

05. Moon Crystal

06. For the Kids

07. Solitude

08. The Wizard

09. Laser Gun

10. Road Blaster

11. Tension

12. Atlantique Sud

13. Time Wind

14. Ludivine

15. Sunday Night 1987

Find M83’s full (as in, complete and stuffed) tour schedule below.

M83 2016 Tour Dates:

04/06 – New Orleans, LA @ The Civic Theatre *

04/08 – Dallas, TX @ Bomb Factory *

04/09 – Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall *

04/10 – Austin, TX @ Stubbs Waller Creek Amphitheater *

04/12 – Tucson, AZ @ Rialto Theatre *

04/13 – Phoenix, AZ @ Comerica Theatre *^

04/15 – Indio, CA @ Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival

04/16 – Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl *

04/17 – Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater *

04/19 – Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater *

04/22 – Indio, CA @ Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival

04/23 – Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst Club *

04/25 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater *

04/26 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater *

04/27 – Missoula, MT @ The Wilma *

04/29 – Edmonton, AB @ Winspear Centre

04/30 – Calgary, AB @ Grey Eagle Event Centre

05/04 – Hong Kong, CN @ Kitec Star Hall

05/07 – Kuala Lumpur, MY @ KL Live

05/19 – Sentosa, SG @ Hard Rock Coliseum

05/21 – Jakarta, ID @ Lapangan D – Senayan

05/24 – Seoul, KR @ Centennial Memorial Samsung Hall

05/26 – Tokyo, JP @ Studio Coast

05/28 – Quincy, WA @ Sasquatch! Music Festival

05/30 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Great Saltair

05/31 – Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre

06/01 – Kansas City, MO @ The Midland

06/04 – New York, NY @ Governors Ball Music Festival

06/06 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE

06/07 – Cincinnati, OH @ Bogart’s

06/08 – Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues

06/09 – Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo Music Festival

06/11 – Raleigh, NC @ Red Hat Amphitheater

06/12 – Richmond, VA @ The National

06/14 – Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore

06/15 – Norfolk, VA @ The NorVa

06/16 – Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion #

06/18 – Dover, DE @ Firefly Music Festival

06/24-26 – Paris, FR @ Solidays Festival

06/28 – Istanbul, TR @ Zorlu Center

06/30 – Gdynia, PL @ Open’er Festival

07/01-03 – Marmande, FR @ Garorock Festival

07/01-03 – Belfort, FR @ Les Eurockeenes

07/07 – Bilbao, ES @ BBK Live Festival

07/09 – Lisbon, PT @ NOS Alive! Festival

07/14-17 – Ostrava, CZ @ Colours of Ostrava Festival

07/15 – Gräfenhainchen, DE @ Melt! Festival

07/23 – Oro-Medonte, ON @ WayHome Music & Arts Festival

07/24 – Detroit, MI @ MoPop Festival

07/29-31 – Montreal, QC @ Osheaga Music Festival

08/10 – Oslo, NO @ Øya Festival

08/11 – Gothenburg, SE @ Way Out West Festival

08/13 – Helsinki, FI @ Flow Festival

08/15 – Budapest, HU @ Sziget Festival

08/19-21 – Biddinghuizen, NL @ Lowlands Festival

08/24-27 – Zurich, CH @ Zurich Openair

08/25-28 – Charleville-Mezieres, FR @ Le Cabaret Vert

* = w/ YACHT

^ = w/ BØRNS

# = w/ Tame Impala