English band Turin Brakes have announced their 10th studio album Spacehopper, set for release on May 23. The band has also unveiled the album's lead single of the same name and confirmed tour dates in Dublin and Belfast.

The South London four-piece consists of founding members Olly Knights and Gale Paridjanian, alongside long-time collaborators Rob Allum and Eddie Myer.

Marking their first new music in over three years, their upcoming album is produced by Grammy-winning Guy Massey, known for his work with Kylie Minogue, Ed Sheeran, and Spiritualized.

With a career spanning more than two decades, the band first rose to prominence with their Mercury Prize-nominated debut album The Optimist, released in March 2001.

“We deliberately went back to Konk Studios where we made The Optimist LP, having stayed away for 25 years,” says frontman Olly Knights. “In some ways to connect to the source but also to be who we are now in that amazing room."

He continued, "It felt like some deep invisible forces were being moved around. The new record is totally its own thing; there are little nods to the debut, but it’s a different beast. It can never be as simple and perfect as the debut, so we didn’t try; we backed ourselves.

“We honestly don’t normally get self-reflective but the whole album 10 thing definitely made us want to play with everything that throws up. The dreams, what worked out, what didn’t, the regrets, the nice surprises… It just seemed like a good moment to admit we’re in on our own legacy in a way. I quite flippantly said at the start we’d be a “10 albums kind of band”. I guess I meant it!”

Knights shares: "I wrote the initial idea when my younger daughters were quite literally bouncing around on the grass in the summer sun on a bright yellow space hopper.

"No smart phones, just a simple planet-shaped rubber ball with a smiley face, like the last 40 years had all been a weird daydream and it was in fact still 1975. Instead of taking a photo on my phone, I grabbed a guitar and out came the song; hopefully, it captured some of the joy of that moment."

The band have also announced a series of UK and Ireland tour dates this November, including a show at Belfast's Empire on Friday, November 7, and Dublin's Whelan's on Saturday, November 8.

Tickets go on sale on March 19, at 10 a.m.

Listen to 'Spacehopper' below.