Skunk Anansie announce new album The Painful Truth – and drop new single ‘Cheers’

Skunk Anansie have today announced their hugely anticipated new studio album The Painful Truth.

The new album, their seventh studio collection and first in nine years, will be released on 23 May 2025 via FLG Records.

Today, the band release new single ‘Cheers’, following on from their last single, ‘An Artist Is An Artist’.

“If thy rest on them laurels thy shall wither up and die” – Skunk Anansie

“I don’t care that we were big in the Nineties,” said vocalist Skin in a statement.

“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.’”

To celebrate the band will be playing a very special headline show on day of release,

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