Placebo have announced their first new album in nine years ‘Loud Like Love, Never Let Me Go’ set for release on 25^th March 2022. News of their long-awaited 8^th studio album is accompanied by tour dates including a show in 3Arena, Dublin on 5^th December 2022 and new teaser track ‘Surrounded By Spies’.

“I began writing the lyrics when I discovered my neighbors were spying on me on behalf of parties with a nefarious agenda. I then began to ponder the countless ways in which our privacy has been eroded and stolen since the introduction of worldwide CCTV cameras that now employ racist facial recognition technologies; the rise of the internet and the cellphone, which has turned practically every user into a paparazzo and spectators in their own lives, and how we have mostly all offered up personal information to enormous multinationals whose sole intent is to exploit us.” says Molko, on the thematic inspiration behind Surrounded By Spies.

“I used the cut-up technique invented by William S Burroughs and popularized in modern song by David Bowie. It’s a true story told through a lens of paranoia, complete disgust for modern society’s values and the deification of surveillance capitalism. The narrator is at the end of their tether, hopeless and afraid, completely at odds with our newfound progress and the god of money.”

Placebo announce at 3Arena, Dublin 5^th December 2022. Tickets from €49.95 on sale Wednesday 17^th November at 9am.