As previously announced, L.Y.R. will release their new album Dark Sky Reservation on 3rd April via Real World Records. Today, the trio share the LP’s title track, and it arrives as both a mission statement and a mood: slow-burning, quietly disquieting, and shot through with the kind of lyrical precision you’d expect from a band fronted by UK poet laureate Simon Armitage.

LYR thrive on the unexpected. As a genre-splicing supergroup of sorts, comprised of author and current British Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, musician Richard Walters and multi-instrumentalist Patrick Pearson, the band is a nexus of diverse creative disciplines, and one of the most thrilling musical prospects around. Following their acclaimed debut, 2020's Call In The Crash Team, LYR's second album is The Ultraviolet Age. This is a more accessible album, pitched somewhere between the enigmatic brood of late period Talk Talk, the lo-fi expanse of Low and their British sprechgesang contemporaries including Dry Cleaning, Yard Act and Black Country, New Road.