The band released second album ‘Wild World’ in 2016, the follow-up to 2013 debut ‘Bad Blood’. Last October, they confirmed they had finished work on their third record.

The group had been teasing the release on Twitter over recent days, sharing a photo every minute between midnight and a quarter past midnight on May 2, each showing an image of a digital clock. The band also changed their Facebook profile picture to a clock displaying the time 00.15.

Fans recently spotted a listing on Universal Music Italy suggesting that a new song from Bastille called ‘Quarter Past Midnight’ would be released next Wednesday (May 9).

Bastille have now confirmed that a new track called ‘Quarter Past Midnight’ will be released on Wednesday.

The band’s frontman Dan Smith spoke to NME last year about the band’s third album, saying: “We never really stop writing and recording, but I can confirm we spent a lot of this year writing our third album.”

Speaking about the style and subject of the new album, Smith said: “We wanted to do something that feels a bit different, wanted to take it a step on from our last record and acknowledge that since we released that album the world seems an even more bizarre and tempestuous place.” However, he said the album wouldn’t “necessarily dwell on that,” and would serve as an “apocalyptic party record”

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