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Release Date Friday 19th September 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.
‘Rainy Sunday Afternoon’, the new album from The Divine
Comedy will be released September 19th 2025 on Divine
Comedy Records.
Recorded at Abbey Road last autumn, ‘Rainy Sunday Afternoon’ is The
Divine Comedy's thirteenth album and their first studio album since 2019's
UK top 5 ‘Office Politics’. The band's last release was 2022's Best Of
compilation ‘Charmed Life’ which also reached 5 in the UK album charts. The
band’s Neil Hannon most recently wrote the original songs for the Warner
Bros blockbuster ‘Wonka.’
Neil says: “My musical output is, for better or worse, a representation of my
personality. A good chunk of that personality revels in the rumbumptious;
celebrates the silly. And I made ample use of that for the Wonka songs. I
have though, like everyone, a darker, more melancholy side. And for one
reason or another it has been much in evidence of late. I needed to use this
album as an outlet for those feelings. To work through some stuff. Mortality;
memories; relationships; political and social upheaval. Everyone should get
to make an orchestral pop album once in a while. It should be available on
the NHS.“
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