Stereophonics to release 13th studio album
By Dan Biggane | January 30, 2025
Stereophonics to release 13th studio album, Make ’em Laugh, Make ’em Cry, Make ’em Wait this April.
The announcement comes alongside a new single taken from the forthcoming record, There’s Always Gonna Be Something. Frontman, Kelly Jones, said: “There’s Always Gonna Be Something is a song that could be describing the restlessness in uncertainty, struggling to arrive at acceptance. A part within all of us.”
Listen below:
The Pink Album
With three decades and a wealth of record-breaking achievements under their belts, including eight No.1 albums, Stereophonics have earned their status and respect amongst their fans, peers and artists from across the musical generations, ranging from Bob Dylan to David Bowie to Dua Lipa.
In 2025, the band mark their anticipated return with Make ’em Laugh, Make ’em Cry, a tight and heavy-hitting eight track record. Written and recorded in London, it is an album devoid of any fat or filler. It is at once clean and precise. Hopeful and joyous. It does what it says on the cover… You Laugh, You Cry, You Wait.
As with previous album artwork, Kelly has gravitated towards different art forms to influence the project’s aesthetic, whether that be paintings, books or films. For Make ’em Laugh, Make ’em Cry, it was a similar process, Kelly recounts. “I went to New York, I visited some galleries, I saw ‘ART IS A GUARANTY OF SANITY’, a painting by Louise Bourgeois. She believed art was a form of mental healing and a way to process difficult emotions. The spelling caught me first, then the simplicity of the words etched onto a pink tile. So I tried scratching my title, inspired by my own art school teacher thirty years ago. And I loved it. I loved the simplicity of the pink. The pink album was born”.
Tracklisting:
Make It On Your Own
There’s Always Gonna Be Something
Seems Like You Don’t Know Me
Colours Of October
Eyes Too Big For My Belly
Mary Is A Singer
Backroom Boys
Feeling Of Falling We Crave
Due for release on 25 April via EMI, the album is available to pre-order here.
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