Hurts Unveil Tracklisting For New Album ‘Exile’

Hurts have announced the track-listing for their second album ‘Exile’, released on 11^th March through Major Label. Their new single ‘Miracle’ will precede the album release on 10^th March.

The band recently unveiled a teaser video for ‘Exile’, which has now received over half a million views and showed a succinct yet profound insight into the bands new album, and can be seen here – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baWthtRhtnY. The video features an excerpt of a new track called ‘The Road’, taken from the new album ‘Exile’.

‘Miracle’ received it’s first worldwide radio play on Huw Stephens show when he covered the Radio 1 breakfast show on Friday 4^th January 2013 calling Hurts “one of the most stunning bands around”. Zane Lowe also played the track on his Radio 1 show last week and said “We like this, this is called ‘Miracle’. Quality songwriting, brilliant production, really confident”. It can be listened to below:

Full tracklisting for ‘Exile’ is as follows –

1. Exile
2. Miracle
3. Sandman
4. Blind
5. Only You
6. The Road
7. Cupid
8. Mercy
9. The Crow
10. Somebody To Die For
11. The Rope
12. Help

‘Exile’, the bands follow-up to their 2010 debut ‘Happiness’, can now be pre-ordered from iTunes, Amazon, Play and HMV.com, with ‘The Road’ available as an instant free track for any orders through iTunes.

‘Happiness’ entered the UK album charts at #4 with over 25,000 sales making Hurts the fastest selling new band of 2010 in the UK. They have now reached over 2,000,000 sales worldwide earning 14 top 10 iTunes positions including #1s in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Finland and Luxembourg. It was officially certified Gold in the UK and Austria, and 2 x Platinum in Germany and Finland, and Platinum in Poland, Switzerland, and Russia, with the band selling over 250,000 tickets on tour.

Hurts recently announced a 12-date UK and European headline tour in March and April 2013 alongside London and Berlin headline shows in February 2013. London, Berlin, Cologne, Munich, Hamburg, Zurich, Prague, Amsterdam, Manchester and Glasgow dates are already all sold out.

Full tour dates are as follows:

February

Thurs 7^th                     London           Heaven                       SOLD OUT
Sat 9^th                          Berlin              Postbahnhof               SOLD OUT

March

Thurs 14^th                   Cologne          Essigfabrik                  SOLD OUT
Fri 15^th                                    Munich           Theaterfabrik              SOLD OUT
Sat 16^th                        Hamburg        Uebel & Gefaehrlich  SOLD OUT
Mon 18^th                     Stockholm       Strand
Wed 20^th                     Warsaw          Palladium
Sat 23^rd                       Zurich             Kaufleuten                  SOLD OUT
Mon 25^th                     Milan              Magazzini Generali
Wed 27^th                     Vienna            Arena
Thurs 28^th                   Prague                        Lucerna Music Bar     SOLD OUT
Sat 30^th                        Amsterdam    Melkweg                     SOLD OUT

April

Mon 1^st                        Manchester     Academy 2                 SOLD OUT
Tues 2^nd                      Glasgow          Garage                        SOLD OUT

Tickets are available from www.informationhurts.com