{"id":838665,"date":"2026-08-01T22:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T22:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/838665\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T22:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T22:57:11","slug":"the-maccabees-are-trying-to-make-a-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/838665\/","title":{"rendered":"The Maccabees are &#8220;trying&#8221; to make a new album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/The-Maccabees-2026-Band-Jill-Furmanovsky-Archive-Far-Out-Magazine-1140x855.jpg\" class=\"attachment-single-feature size-single-feature wp-post-image\" alt=\"The Maccabees - 2026 - Band - Jill Furmanovsky Archive\" layout=\"fill\"  style=\"object-position: 50% 20%\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Credit: Jill Furmanovsky Archive<\/p>\n<p> Sat 1 August 2026 16:42, UK <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/tags\/the-maccabees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">The Maccabees<\/a> frontman Orlando Weeks has confirmed that the band is working on new music with the overall \u201caim\u201d to make a new album.<\/p>\n<p>The indie hitmakers reunited in 2025 following their split in 2017, and have since played festival sets at <a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/the-future-of-indie-lies-in-the-small-fonts-the-maccabees-at-all-points-east\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">London\u2019s All Points East<\/a> and Glastonbury festival, as well as a batch of UK July shows.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Pelican\u2019 musicians haven\u2019t released a record since 2015\u2019s Marks to Prove It, but things are soon set to change.<\/p>\n<p>In June, the outfit sent fans into a frenzy after sharing snippets of their tour setlist that included <a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/the-maccabees-teasing-new-music\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">unfamiliar additions<\/a> to the list, such as the songs \u2018Ballad of So Long\u2019 and \u2018She\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Now, speaking on Radio X, Weeks has followed up that teaser with the revelation that they\u2019re closer to new music than ever, sharing, \u201cWell, in that we\u2019re playing new stuff\u2026 it\u2019s a big jump for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cWe hadn\u2019t played together for eight years, and then last summer we weren\u2019t ready to do any of that. We didn\u2019t have any songs, and now we have some songs. We have one that we\u2019re really confident [in], and we\u2019re enjoying playing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The hiatus was creatively fruitful in some ways, with Weeks revealing they have several songs they\u2019ve been \u201cworking on whilst we\u2019ve been away\u201d, and will \u201ckeep working on\u201d them at the end of the tour.<\/p>\n<p>He went on, \u201cThat\u2019s the aim, is to try and do it. Make it good enough, and then it\u2019ll happen, you know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recently, guitarist Felix White sat down for a Proustian pint as part of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/existential-boozer-a-proustian-pint-with-felix-white\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Far Out\u2019s Existential Boozer<\/a>, where he opened up about the band\u2019s break.<\/p>\n<p>He admitted, \u201cI\u2019ve 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  <a class=\"fw\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" style=\"\"> ADD AS A PREFERRED SOURCE ON GOOGLE <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"28\" height=\"28\" src=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/themes\/far-out-magazine\/img\/google-discover.svg\" alt=\"\"\/> <\/a>  The Far Out Music Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>All the latest music news from the independent voice of culture.<br \/>Straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: Jill Furmanovsky Archive Sat 1 August 2026 16:42, UK The Maccabees frontman Orlando Weeks has confirmed that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":838666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[6979,64,63,134,1770,136,411013],"class_list":["post-838665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-album","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-indie","tag-music","tag-the-maccabees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}