The Cribs Return With New Single Running Into You and Their First New Album in Three Years

: by Joe Sharratt; in Reviews; on 14 August 2020

Wakefield indie-rock trio The Cribs have confirmed details of their first new album since 2017. Out on 13 November, it’s titled Night Network and is preceded by lead single Running Into You, which is available now and is accompanied by a video co-directed by Andy Knowles and Nick Scott.

Starring actor Sam Riley, who played Ian Curtis in Control, the 2007 biopic of the Joy Division frontman, and Sal Paradise in the 2012 adaptation of the Jack Kerouac novel On the Road, the video pokes fun at the band following their period out of the limelight.

Comprised of twin brothers Gary and Ryan Jarman, and their young brother Ross, The Cribs, in fact, have been away for so long that they only played their first live performance together in two years this summer.

Writing on Facebook at the time, the band said: “Got the old band back together (despite being separated by thousands of miles!) for a fashionably late isolation video, our first ‘live’ performance in almost 2 years! Feel like the title of the song is quite pertinent at the minute, and hope you’re all looking out for each other.”

Perhaps best known for their top twenty single Men’s Needs released in 2007, The Cribs added former The Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr to their lineup between 2008 and 2011.

Night Network will be the band’s eighth studio album. Their previous four albums – Ignore The Ignorant in 2009, In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull in 2012, 2015’s For All My Sisters, and their last album 24-7 Rock Star Shit – all reached the top ten in the UK album charts.

Watch the official video for Running Into You below.

Night Network track list:

1. Goodbye

2. Running Into You

3. Screaming Into Suburbia

4. Never Thought I’d Feel Again

5. Deep Infatuation

6. I Don’t Know Who I Am (featuring Lee Ranaldo)

7. She’s My Style

8. Under The Bus Station Clock

9. The Weather Speaks Your Name

10. Siren Sing-Along