What's Happening With The Hoosiers?

Strange things are afoot in the Hoosiers camp. On April 1st they announced that they were splitting with Sony records; pulling their latest album, The Illusion Of Safety, and rereleasing it themselves with a new title, Bumpy Ride.

Of course, the date didn't lend any credibility to these reports. But here we are on April 3rd and it all still stands. The music page of the band's own website has been updated and The Illusion Of Safety is conspicuous in its absence. In its place is some rather crude album art and a pre-order button for the retitled album.

Annoyingly, they made this announcement and previewed the new album material right here in Sheffield, in the Winter Gardens.  I discovered all this from the Sheffield Star, who have video of the event. Ho hum.

The new album will have 4 more tracks than The Illusion Of Safety; Say Hello Wave Goodbye, Used To Be Love, Squeeze and Sister Sister. Pre-ordering the deluxe version gets you an MP3 download of Used To Be Love immediately and a live DVD. Peculiarly, the deluxe version costs £7.99 + £1.50 p&p. The MP3 download of the standard version costs ... £7.99. Weird.

Most peculiar.