It’s been a long time coming – but The Last Battle’s sophomore album Lay Your Burden Down will be released on May 5 through Beard Of Truth.

I’ll write a review next week, but for the meantime you should be aware that there are two launch gigs taking place next week.

The first takes place on May 1 at Glasgow’s THe Roxy 171 with support from solo sets from Meursault and Randolph’s Leap (I’ve championed both these acts on the blog over the years, so if you haven’t been paying attention, now is the time to put this right), The second takes place on May 2 with support from J Wright Presents and Lidh at The Liquid Rooms. It will unquestionably be awesome.

And you can stream the album in its entirety below.