One of our favorite UK bands, British Sea Power is back with a new album Machineries Of Joy to be released on April 1st on Rough Trade Records.  British Sea Power are a six-piece band variously originating from Cumbria, Yorkshire, Ealing and Shropshire and are currently based in East Sussex and on the Isle Of Skye.

The band’s singer/guitarist Yan explains about the new album:  “We’d like to think the album is warm and restorative. Various things are touched on in the words – Franciscan monks, ketamine, French female bodybuilders turned erotic movie stars. The world often seems a mad place at the moment. You can’t really be oblivious to that, but we’d like the record to be an antidote – a nice game of cards in pleasant company.”

British Sea Power has now released its cycling-centric official video for the fantastic, chugging title track from the new album.  Check it out below.  We love anything cycling, and the video captures well the spell of spinning through (and up) bucolic terrain and letting life flow past.  We love the down-tube shifters and vintage look, and the bicycle sculptures along the way.  Not sure about the angst instead of release/joy in the closing moments.  Still, a beauty in song and vision.  And remember:  help is [always] on the way.

Bring on the new album!  You can pre-order it HERE.