Skunk Anansie Return with The Painful Truth: A Bold, Provocative Comeback Album Set to Redefine Their Legacy

Words by Felix Bartlett | Feb 26, 2025

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British rock legends Skunk Anansie have announced their highly anticipated new studio album, The Painful Truth.

Their first record in nine years which follows 2016’s Anarchytecture is set to release on May 23 via FLG Records.

The latest offering promises to be a truly mesmerising, provocative, powerful and emotional album demonstrating a band at the absolute peak of their powers, yet with everything to prove with vocalist Skin sharing in a statement: “I don’t care that we were big in the ’90s. Creatively it’s irrelevant because in my rock bible the first commandment states, ‘If thy rest on them laurels thy shall wither up and die artistically, musically, mentally. And then financially.”

Unsure of what to do, and failing to write on zoom the band decided to head in with “fresh and forward-thinking” this time around with the crew teaming up with David Sitek of TV On The Radio on production duties, with Skin teasing that they’ve now ultimately made what “I genuinely think is our greatest record yet”.

Unsure of what to do and struggling to write over Zoom, the band decided to take a “fresh and forward-thinking” approach this time around. They teamed up with David Sitek of TV On The Radio for production duties, with Skin teasing that they’ve ultimately made what “I genuinely think is our greatest record yet”.

Dive into the new single ‘Cheers’ below:

See the full tracklist for The Painful Truth:

1. An Artist Is An Artist
2. This Is Not Your Life
3. Shame
4. Lost And Found
5. Cheers
6. Shoulda Been You
7. Animal
8. Fell In Love With A Girl
9. My Greatest Moment
10. Meltdown

And check out the album cover:

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