Placebo's long-awaited studio album 'Never Let Me Go' arrives in March

Placebo's first album in nine years, 'Never Let Me Go,' is confirmed for release on March 25 through Rise Records in the U.S. and Canada. The latest new track unveiled is “Surrounded by Spies.” UK/IE headline tour dates are slated for 2022.

Listen to “Surrounded By Spies” HERE and view the visualizer HERE.

Pre-order Never Let Me Go and access ticket pre-sale HERE.

This past September, Placebo resurfaced from a long hiatus to release their first single in five years – and first from the new album – “Beautiful James.” Brian Molko commented at the time, “If the song serves to irritate the squares and the uptight, so gleefully be it.”

Expanding on the songs, Brian Molko says in press release that he “began writing the lyrics when I discovered my neighbors were spying on me on behalf of parties with a nefarious agenda. I then began to ponder the countless ways in which our privacy has been eroded and stolen since the introduction of worldwide CCTV cameras that now employ racist facial recognition technologies; the rise of the internet and the cellphone, which has turned practically every user into a paparazzo and spectators in their own lives, and how we have mostly all offered up personal information to enormous multinationals whose sole intent is to exploit us.

"I used the cut-up technique invented by William S Burroughs and popularized in modern song by David Bowie. It’s a true story told through a lens of paranoia, complete disgust for modern society’s values and the deification of surveillance capitalism. The narrator is at the end of their tether, hopeless and afraid, completely at odds with our newfound progress and the god of money.”

Track listing:

1. Forever Chemicals

2. Beautiful James
3. Hugz
4. Happy Birthday In The Sky
5. The Prodigal
6. Surrounded By Spies
7. Try Better Next Time
8. Sad White Reggae
9. Twin Demons
10. Chemtrails
11. This Is What You Wanted
12. Went Missing
13. Fix Yourself