Welcome to Sideways

After wrapping touring and support for Whorl , the duo took a short hiatus in 2015. Ford produced albums for Florence and the Machine , Mumford & Sons , Foals and the Last Shadow Puppets , while Shaw built a new studio and released a series of solo EPs. The duo announced in 2016 that they would release four singles, totalling eight new tracks, during the year born out of jam sessions in the new studio. As of July, two of these singles have been released. The singles see the duo abandoning the tradition of naming their traditional techno tracks after exotic cuisine, “for the simple reason that we’ve pretty much run out of weird and wonderful food stuffs to steal names from. Instead, a semi-random automated process has been used to create the track names”. In September, a new album Welcome to Sideways was announced for release in November 2016. The nine-track album, featuring “Staring at All This Handle” and “Remember in Reverse”, along with seven brand new tracks, will come with a bonus mixed version. Like their previous Delicacies album from 2010, the tracks are more club-focused than the experimental style found on Whorl . Ford commented: “We realize that from an outsider point of view, it can seem like we change quite radically with every album we do but from our point of view it always feels like a smooth transition. Hopefully people who have stuck with us this long, and appreciate the fact that we aren’t trying to repeat ourselves with every album, will enjoy another slight turn sideways.”