Third album recording in Los Angeles

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In October 2008, the band announced that they had started recording their third album in Los Angeles with the producer Nick Launay , known for his recent work with Nick Cave and Grinderman . The full track list of the album was announced on 11 March 2009. Quicken the Heart was released on 11 May, with the first single, ” The Kids Are Sick Again ” being released a week earlier. Tickets for a tour taking place in May 2009 sold out in record time . In 2010, they performed a new song called “Banlieue”, which ended up on their next album, The National Health . Their 2011 tour also had “Banlieue” in the set list, as well as another song which was to be on The National Health , “Waves of Fear”.