Second album Our Earthly Pleasures announced

In August 2006, the band announced that they had started work on their next album, which was produced by Gil Norton and recorded at Rak Studios in St John’s Wood in London. On 22 January 2007, the band announced that their second album, Our Earthly Pleasures , would be released on 2 April 2007 and on 8 May 2007 in the US, preceded by the album’s lead single, “Our Velocity”, on 19 March 2007. On 30 January 2007, the band released details of a tour to promote Our Earthly Pleasures , the tickets of which sold out within minutes of their release on 2 February 2007. Later that same April, frontman Paul Smith contributed vocals to a pop soul remix of the band’s 2005 single ” Apply Some Pressure ” by English DJ and producer Mark Ronson for his studio album of cover versions, Version , as an album-only track, Smith having recorded the vocals for Ronson after Ronson invited him to perform on the instrumental he had made based on the band’s original. In October 2007, the band contributed a cover of Justin Timberlake and Clipse ‘s ” Like I Love You ” for the compilation album Radio 1: Established 1967 , the album consisting of cover versions recorded for BBC Radio 1 for the station’s fourtieth anniversary. This cover would also appear on the CD single for ” Karaoke Plays ” in December of that same year.