Irvine Welsh has announced his debut album, Men In Love, out July 24, released in collaboration with the Sci-Fi Soul Orchestra, who produced and composed the music.

The release of the disco album will coincide with a novel of the same name, a direct sequel to Trainspotting.

The record serves as a musical extension to the literary project and is described as “classic Motown and disco influences with contemporary electronic dance production”.

Check out the lead single ‘A Man In Love With Love’ below:

Speaking about Men In Love, Welsh said: “In uncertain times, dominated by the ascendancy of soul dead oligarchs, their corrosive technology and looting economics, the great positive constant for humanity remains our infinite capacity for love.”

He added that music “is still the medium by which we bypass their reductive, low frequency world. One of the greatest musical forms in delivering that ecstasy has been discotheque music”.

“No matter how confused our men (and women) have been in the quest for love,” he continued, “as we are forced to earn a living to pay for our fun, our real predilections are to party like it’s 2099. So don’t diss the disco, let’s dance away the heartache or die trying, because nothing else makes any sense”

Irvine Welsh was recently announced as part of the Arts Programme for Beyond The Pale Festival this June, where he will present Men In Love, described as “a literary trip down the rabbit hole of masculinity and disco.”

You can pre-order Men In Love here.