Hot on the heels of his acclaimed fifth album The Atheist released late last year, revered alt-rock songwriter Jamie Lenman is delighted to announce a surprise new EP, with Iknowyouknowiknow set for release on 5th May 2023 via Big Scary Monsters.

To celebrate, Lenman has today revealed an official video for the EP’s lead single ‘Words of Love’, which will be released on 1st February 2023.

Commenting on the new track, Lenman says: “‘Words Of Love’ is a very old song that I’ve been trying to get on a record since some time between the second and third Reuben albums, but it never fit anywhere until now. Even so, I still had to shave off a few of the post-hardcore edges to make it fit with this project, so if you think you can hear a little mid-noughties vibe in there, that’s why. For a long time this was on rough track listings for the album, but in the end we decided it would be nice to give it a starring role on the EP instead—otherwise it would have been fighting for attention.”

Recorded at The Chapel studios in Chichester over January and February 2022, Lenman’s recently released fifth album The Atheist was engineered, produced and mixed by Mark Roberts (Delta Sleep, Black Peaks, The Physics House Band) with additional engineering by Kieran Heighes, and mastered by Tom Langrish (65DOS, Fontaines D.C., Chubby & The Gang, IDLES).

The album’s anthemic lead track ‘Talk Hard’, stadium-bothering follow-up ‘Lena Don’t Leave Me’, and NHS charity single ‘Hospital Tree’ racked up coverage from Music Week, Kerrang! Magazine, Rock Sound, UPSET, Guitar World, Total Guitar, DSCVRD and more, with a hearty, ever-growing list of radio spins and playlist placements at BBC Radio One, Radio X, Kerrang! Radio, Amazing Radio, and Absolute Radio.

The New EP Iknowyouknowiknow is released 5th May 2023 via Big Scary Monsters

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