Download: Chapel Club – Sleep Alone [Best Fit Premiere]

Chapel Club make their return today by unveiling four songs from their new album Good Together, the follow up to 2010′s Palace. Tripping samples, heady beats and balearic bass lines have infiltrated the band’s repertoire for latest single and free download ‘Sleep Alone’, marking a complete change in direction for the London based five piece, as vocalist Lewis Bowman explains.

“These four songs (like the album entire) are pretty different from our old stuff, and we realise that may disappoint some of our fans. We didn’t aim to mess with anyone’s hopes or expectations, but we also knew we couldn’t keep doing this if we had to spend another 18 months writing and playing The Big Music. We formed and were signed so quickly that we never really talked about what kind of band we wanted to be. So while it was amazing that lots of people embraced the music, and while we knew it had its strengths, we also knew we wanted to approach the second record in a different spirit.

This time around we wanted to create something fresh, for us as much as everyone else – something bright and playful and surprising. Looking back, the first record was kind of a comedown record, whether coming down from a drug or a relationship or the hopes of your youth or whatever. And I guess at some point I realised that, while I was singing like it was all over, actually it wasn’t; it was just beginning. (Whatever ‘it’ may be.) So this time the band decided that, whatever the emotional direction of a song or a lyric – even if it was about feeling sad or scared or confused – we’d try to turn those feelings into something more active and productive than a grandiose whinge. That’s what lots of my favourite pop songs do, and Good Together is above all else a pop record. It feels strangely thrilling to say that.

So anyway, this is your first taste of the new album. The record has touches of the old romance and melancholia, of course, but much more colour and energy and fizz and sparkle besides (at least, it does to my ears). It also has songs you can dance to: finally some CC songs you can dance to! I’ve been waiting for that since before the band had a name.”

Listen exclusively to four tracks from Good Together here at The Line of Best Fit, and find a free download of new single ‘Sleep Alone’ below.