Scottish duo Hue and Cry have revealed details of their 16th studio album, Everybody, set for release on 29 May. The record features the lead single Stronger and addresses themes of resilience amid global challenges. The band will support the album with a full-band tour in October.
Hue and Cry, known for 1980s hits like Labour Of Love and Looking For Linda, are marking a new phase with their 16th album, Everybody. The project blends electropop, Latin House, and Future Disco elements, showcasing Greg Kane's electronic soundscapes alongside Pat Kane's distinctive vocals. Tracks explore romantic narratives and broader concepts, born from experiments with tools such as DeepMind arpeggiators, hydrasynths, and classic drum machines. The album was mixed by Yoad Nevo, who has worked with Pet Shop Boys and Duran Duran.
Pat Kane reflected on the creative process: “We’re still pushing for something new in 2026. From a wall of arpeggiators and synths, humming and pulsing away, we’ve wrested out 10 songs that have as much of our mind, body and soul in them as any of our previous music.” The songs tackle issues like powerlessness, polarisation, climate change, authoritarianism, and technological overreach, while emphasizing active love as a response.
Much of the writing occurred between 2018 and 2020, a period Pat Kane described as emotionally turbulent: “I was in anguish and I didn’t even know it.” Delays arose from personal hardships including bereavement, illness, broken relationships, the pandemic, and the band's 40th anniversary activities.
Pat Kane added: “It turns out that Everybody is a love album – but that can mean love of justice, love of tech, love of the future, as much as of our beloveds.” The album arrives on 29 May in CD, vinyl, digital formats, and a limited-edition collector’s boxset, available through the band's online store. The boxset includes a signed CD, marble vinyl, Blu-Ray with Dolby Atmos mixes, an exclusive 7-inch single with tracks Promised Land and Give Me Strength My Love, and a live CD from their 2025 Glasgow show at Kelvingrove.
The tracklist comprises: Stronger, Everybody Deserves To Be Loved, Make My Day, And Then You Bloom, Dissolve And Disappear, I Remember, In Our Ruins, Kinda Blue, Kinda Love, Force Majeure, and Broken Gods.
Following recent tours, including an electro/acoustic duo outing and 40th anniversary celebrations, Hue and Cry will hit the road with their full band in October. Pat Kane said: “It’s always the most exciting thing to be playing live with the full Hue And Cry band – we can give all the hits and audience favourites – the full widescreen treatment. Come and see us, looking as sharp as you like, and let’s elegantly party together.” Greg Kane noted: “We’re delighted to be taking the full band on the road again. The venues included on this run of dates are bigger and some of the best in the country, we cannot wait to play them.”
Dates include Manchester's Bridgewater Hall on 9 October (co-headline with Roachford), London's Indigo at The O2 on 10 October, and Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall on 30 October (with special guests Johnny Hates Jazz).