 As with several of their previous releases, the recording of the album was to be funded by fan pre-orders, this time through direct-to-fan website PledgeMusic.The album was released on 23 September 2016  debuting at number 4 in the official UK charts of 30 September 2016, their highest placing since "Clutching at Straws" nearly three decades earlier.In November 2016, they announced their first ever show at the Royal Albert Hall in London, in October 2017.