New Adebisi Shank record features Jape, Villagers and awesome artwork

Wexford noisemakers Adebisi Shank have announced that they will release their second full length album - rather excitingly featuring contributions from Mercury prize nominated Villagers frontman Conor O' Brien and Choice Prize winner Richie “Jape” Egan - late next month.

This is the second album of a band called Adebisi Shank, the follow up to 2008's This is the album of a band called Adebisi Shank will be released by drummer Michael Roe's Richter Collective label in Ireland on August 20, through Big Scary Monsters in the UK a few days later while Prabolica Records will also give the album a Japanese release on October 20.

On the new record bassist Vin (who also produces very fine music under the name The Vinny Club in his downtime) says:

“On the first album, our mission was get in, tear it up, get out. The whole thing is over in about 24 minutes, which is really cool, but this time we wanted to make something that you could really spend a bit of time with, get a bit lost in. This one’s 40 minutes, which might not sound a lot, but to us that is almost like a double album. There’s a real sense of geography to the songs, you can really feel the places we’ve been and to an extent, the people we’ve met as we’ve travelled around.It seemed to make sense to bring in as many of our friends as we could to give the album the party vibe we felt it deserved. It’s a big glorious mess.”

According to the Richter Collective's twitter feed, Nialler9 will be premiering a track from the album later this afternoon.