Ray Finlayson

Franz Ferdinand will return with their new album, Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Actions in August 27th of this year. With that anticipatory date ahead of us, the band will also head out on an expansive your, playing numerous festivals and North American dates, and dropping by Japan also. To tantalize you further, the Glasgow-based band have also shared a behind the scenes video, allowing us a live version of what can be assumed to be a new song, along with plenty of other details about the album's construction. Check out the video after the dates below.

Volcano Choir - the side project of Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon - are to release their sophomore album later this year. Repave will see its release through Jagjaguwar on September 2nd/3rd, following 2009's Unmap. That's the artwork above, and fitting with the watery imagery, their new single "Byegone" boasts a crescendo where Vernon proclaims "Set sail!"

Okkervil River’s newly announced album, The Silver Gymnasium has had a little more revealed about its contents: According to frontman Will Sheff, the album “takes place in 1986 in a small town in New Hampshire.” You’ll find that town depicted in the new lyric video for the jaunty, piano-led track “It Was My Season” as a projector plays out the lyrics as the stage – which was built nearly a decade ago for a play called “The Woodland Princess” – goes from dawn to dusk.

Watch the new video from Australia's World's End Press, for their track "To Send Our Love."

Listen to the snappy new cut from Natasha Kozaily, from her upcoming new album, Serenading Renegades.

Watch the video for the title track of Sigur Rós' new album, Kveikur.

Watch the black-and-white video for Thee xx's "Fiction," featuring a contemplative and wandering Oliver Sim taking in the night sky.