A Perfect Circle Announces First Album in 14 Years, Shares New Song

A Perfect Circle has officially announced their new album, Eat The Elephant–due out April 20, 2018. A follow up to 2004’s eMOTIVe, the new album will mark the band’s fourth original album to date. After being largely inactive between 2013 and 2017, the return of A Perfect Circle was marked with a successful spring tour last year.

The band will hit the road again this spring, with North American dates starting at the Veterans Memorial Stadium in Tucson, AZ on April 14th and ending at the BFD at Starplex Pavilion in Dallas, TX on May 26th, with festival appearances at Coachella, Northern Invasion, and Rocklahoma. From there, they will head to Europe for the summer.

A Perfect Circle features Maynard James Keenan (Tool, Puscifer), Billy Howerdel (Ashes Divide), James Iha (Tinted Windows, ex-Smashing Pumpkins), Jeff Friedl (Puscifer, The Beta Machine) and Matt McJunkins (Eagles of Death Metal, The Beta Machine). Today’s album announcement comes with new music in the form of their first single, “TalkTalk”, which you can listen to below.

Marking their first new album in 14 years, Eat the Elephant–produced by Dave Sardy (Incubus, ZZ Top)–consists of 12 original tracks, including previously released tracks “Disillusioned” and “The Doomed”. You can download all three with a pre-order here.

Eat the Elephant Tracklist:
01. Eat the Elephant
02. Disillusioned
03. Contrarian
04. The Doomed
05. So Long, And Thanks For All the Fish
06. TalkTalk
07. By and Down the River
08. Delicious
09. DLB
10. Hourglass
11. Feathers
12. Get the Lead Out

A Perfect Circle 2018 Tour Dates:
04/14 – Tuscon, AZ @ Veterans Memorial Stadium
04/15 – Indio, CA @ Coachella Music Festival
04/17 – Santa Barbara, CA @ Arlington Theatre
04/18 – San Jose, CA @ San Jose State University Events Center
04/20 – Las Vegas, NV @ Las Rageous Music Festival
04/22 – Indio, CA @ Coachella Music Festival
05/12 – Somerset, WI @ Northern Invasion
05/15 – Omaha, NE @ Baxter Arena
05/16 – Columbia, MO @ Mizzou Arena
05/18 – Columbus, OH @ Rock on the Range
05/22 – Birmingham, AL @ Legacy Arena at the BJCC
05/25 – Pryor, OK @ Rocklahoma
05/26 – Dallas, TX @ BFD at Starplex Pavilion
06/01 – Nürburgring, DE @ Rock Am Ring
06/02 – Nuremberg, DE @ Rock Im Park
06/05 – Stockholm, SE @ Fryshuset
06/06 – Oslo, NO @ Spektrum
06/08 – Aarhus, DK @ Northridge Festival
06/09 – Helsinki, FL @ Sideways Festival
06/12 – Manchester, UK @ O2 Apollo Manchester
06/13 – London, UK @ O2 Academy Brixton
06/14 – London, UK @ O2 Academy Brixton
06/17 – Berlin, DE @ Zitadelle
06/20 – Zurich, CH @ Halle 622
06/23 – Esch-Sur-Aizette, LU @ Rockhal
06/24 – Dessel, BE @ Graspop
06/26 – Paris, FR @ Olympia
06/28 – Madrid, ES @ Download Festival Madrid
06/29 – Barcelona, ES @ Be Prog! My Friend Festival
07/01 – Verona, IT @ Rock The Castle

[H/T CoS]