The Maccabees stream new single ‘Something Like Happiness’ – listen

Band release fourth album 'Marks To Prove It' in July

The Maccabees have shared a new track from their upcoming fourth LP.

Titled ‘Marks To Prove It’, the band’s new record will be released on July 31, following on from 2012’s ‘Given To The Wild’. Having already unveiled the album’s title-track, the group have now announced new single ‘Something Like Happiness’, which will be released the same day as the aforementioned LP.

SEE MORE: The Maccabees Interview: Inside The “Traumatic” Making Of Their New Album ‘Marks To Prove It’

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Singer Orlando Weeks says of the track: “It’s about being really happy for someone if they’ve got something. You can feel like you have to rally against things, but people know their minds and if it brings someone contentment, then good for them.”

Listen to ‘Something Like Happiness’ below.

The Maccabees recently described the process of recording their new album, described the writing and recordings sessions as “painful”, “tricky” and “traumatic”.

“I think if we’d just met each other and decided to do a record and it was this record, or it at least took the same amount of time [as this record], then we would have given in and said it wasn’t working,” said guitarist Hugo White.

Fellow guitar player, Felix White added: “Every single week we felt like the album might not happen. In that first year [of recording] we did think, ‘Well, maybe this isn’t working’. I can’t speak for everyone, but I didn’t feel like I was living a particularly anchored existence for a couple of years.”

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The ‘Marks To Prove It’ tracklist is as follows:

‘Marks To Prove It’
‘Kamakura’
‘Ribbon Road’
‘Spit It Out’
‘Silence’
‘River Song’
‘Slow Sun’
‘Something Like Happiness’
‘WW1 Portraits’
‘Pioneering Systems’
‘Dawn Chorus’

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