The legendary Scottish rock band The Proclaimers is back on stage after a break of a few years, touring around Europe. Along with the concerts, the rock duo, which consists of Craig and Charlie Reid, just announced their first new album since 2022’s Dentures Out.
The Proclaimers revealed that their 13th studio album, called You May Offend, is set to be released on Sept. 11, 2026. The record will feature 12 new songs, including the title track and others like “Easy Rhyme,” “A Little Bit Late,” and “When You Get There,” among others. It is already available for pre-order.
The first single, “You May Offend,” dropped on June 26, along with a stylish music video directed by Douglas Mackinnon. Touching on the themes of the song and video, Mackinnon described the project: “Across beaches, rooftops, city and country landscapes, listening machines hear everything in the world. Silent operators search for dangerous thoughts, listening for offensive statements and language. A surreal video about fear, surveillance, free speech and tolerance.”
The first single gives fans a taste of the album’s overall message. Charlie commented on the song and album title and how it can be interpreted two different ways, “As in: ‘Look, careful what you do, you may offend someone.’ Or: ‘OK children, you may now offend.’ Is it an instruction or an invitation? Or a warning?”
The album is expected to further explore censorship and free speech through the many tracks, so fans should keep a lookout for these messages when You May Offend finally drops this fall.
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Some fans have already gotten to hear other songs from the record during The Proclaimers’ tour dates. The band started their current tour at the start of June in their big return to the stage. The last time the duo toured was back in 2023. Their current tour is expected to continue across Europe through December 2026, with quite a few stops already sold out.
Blitzedmagazine highlighted the song “But It Is” as a standout that fans at recent concerts have loved. As the publication described, “The song is about the impotence and the hypocrisy of Western countries, not just Britain, and how lecturing the rest of the world about democracy, about freedom, about rights in the past may have been more acceptable when the West was on top, but no longer.”
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