“I’m not doing this for anyone else. I’m doing it because it’s important to me to make the songs better. I have to do it.” Ian McCulloch. 

Echo & the Bunnymen have announced a brand new studio album, The Stars, The Oceans & The Moon for 2018, along with a headline U.K. tour, which includes a night at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall and culminates at London’s Royal Albert Hall.

This new studio album will see The Bunnymen, still lead by the indomitable Ian McCulloch and Will Sergeant, revisit some of their greatest songs to rearrange and transform them with co-producer Andy Wright and …strings and things. Expect a couple of brand new tracks to accompany the classics.