London-based post-punk quartet Desperate Journalist return for a fifth studio album of sardonic, wry humour in autumn 2024.

No Hero, featuring the fabulous pre-singles `Unsympathetic Parts 1 & 2' and 'Afraid' as well as forthcoming lead-single 'You Say You're Lonely', finds the group seeking to gently evolve their jagged, noirish original sound into ever more interesting shapes.

As creative re-entries go the pre-released singles are gleaming, beaming signposts towards an album which sees Desperate Journalist push and pull their original noirish indie sound into newer, ever more nubile shapes and jagged angles without losing that glowering essence rare.

There are shiny synthesisers; there are fantastical gothic ruminations; there are stormtrooping melodies; there are ghostly piano-led interludes, berserk guitar outbursts and the odd bit which sounds a bit like The Icicle Works.

Oh, and there is a giant spangly desperately Desperate Journalist chorus on the song '7' which, with supreme logic, is indeed listed as number 7.

The best of all album track numbers, for sure, in this case a track, which would work as possible single, too (chosen album focus track is).

"Whenever we write something new, I generally want it to be simultaneously weirder and more pop than what we have done before, and I think this is the album on which we have really leapt forward in that regard." - Jo Bevan 2024 Desperate Journalist very much consist of Jo Bevan (vocals, synths and drum machine); Robert Hardy (guitars, synths and piano); Caroline Helbert (drums, drum machines and percussion); Simon Drowner (bass and synths).

Indies-only Curacao coloured vinyl in gatefold sleeve!