Credit: Jill Furmanovsky Archive
Sat 1 August 2026 16:42, UK
The Maccabees frontman Orlando Weeks has confirmed that the band is working on new music with the overall “aim” to make a new album.
The indie hitmakers reunited in 2025 following their split in 2017, and have since played festival sets at London’s All Points East and Glastonbury festival, as well as a batch of UK July shows.
The ‘Pelican’ musicians haven’t released a record since 2015’s Marks to Prove It, but things are soon set to change.
In June, the outfit sent fans into a frenzy after sharing snippets of their tour setlist that included unfamiliar additions to the list, such as the songs ‘Ballad of So Long’ and ‘She’.
Now, speaking on Radio X, Weeks has followed up that teaser with the revelation that they’re closer to new music than ever, sharing, “Well, in that we’re playing new stuff… it’s a big jump for us.”
He added, “We hadn’t played together for eight years, and then last summer we weren’t ready to do any of that. We didn’t have any songs, and now we have some songs. We have one that we’re really confident [in], and we’re enjoying playing.”
The hiatus was creatively fruitful in some ways, with Weeks revealing they have several songs they’ve been “working on whilst we’ve been away”, and will “keep working on” them at the end of the tour.
He went on, “That’s the aim, is to try and do it. Make it good enough, and then it’ll happen, you know.”
Recently, guitarist Felix White sat down for a Proustian pint as part of Far Out’s Existential Boozer, where he opened up about the band’s break.
He admitted, “I’ve always just felt like being a guitar player in a band, and that sort of feels, without disrespect to anyone, like a bit of a two-dimensional existence now when I look back on it.”
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