Of Monsters and Men have announced their triumphant return to the scene, complete with a new single, the shimmering ‘Crystals’, and tell of an eagerly anticipated follow-up to their acclaimed 2011 album My Head Is an Animal, the album that gave us ‘Little Talks’, which nearly topped the Triple J Hottest 100 in 2012.
This morning, the Icelandic outfit shared their first piece of new music since My Head Is An Animal‘s release on Triple J. Singer and guitarist Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir revealed it as the first single from the band’s sophomore effort, to be titled Beneath The Skin.
“It kind of just ties up the album very well for us,” said Nanna of the name. “We talked about the first album [being] very outward, kind of looking out and exploring and with this album we tried to look inward… a lot more personal. So Beneath The Skin is exactly that, it’s just going beneath everything.”
The album is currently slated for release in June, and as Nanna told Matt and Alex recording the LP was “a very weird process”. “Leaving the studio when we were still recording and going into another studio and there were 60 people sitting around, with their arms closed, and I was hiding in a control room in the dark and spying on everybody,” she added.
Beneath The Skin was co-produced by the band with Rich Costey, who’s worked with the likes of Muse, Foster The People, and Kimbra, and the new songs will be getting their live debut later this year.
