Dublin alt-rockers MELTS have announced their sophomore LP Field Theory, alongside the project’s bulldozing lead single ‘Figment’.

Recorded to tape in Black Mountain Studios and produced by Gilla Band’s Daniel Fox, the album is set to drop April 12 via indie label Fuzz Club.

According to the band, the title takes inspiration from the scientific term which “describes how forces interact and influence particles around them, and applies it to the interactions between people, the space between all of us, how people interact and affect others around them.”

“Like gravity we are drawn to and miss people and like light waves we love people and are loved. We live in orbits of each other, drawn by unseen forces,” said MELTS, expanding on the record’s themes.

“The album explores these forces, how we relate to each other, the people we live with and the people we live without.

“At the heart of Field Theory lies the realisation that we inhabit each other's worlds as much as our own, through a field of wide-ranging forces, as important as the ones keeping the planets in place.”

Consisting of Robbie Brady, Hugh O'Reilly, Gaz Earle, and Eoin Kenny, MELTS spent 2022 - 2023 touring their debut full-length Maelstrom across Europe, the UK, the US and Ireland, including festival appearances at Wide Awake and SXSW. They have also toured with Fontaines D.C. and supported the likes of Gilla Band and Public Image Ltd.

MELTS have also announced tour dates across the U.K and Europe in support of Field Theory, which go on sale at 10am Friday, January 26 here.