The Rubens Pen Release Date For New Album 'Hoops'

Gearing towards this moment since September 2013, the NSW quartet The Rubens have finally revealed the date you should all mark on your calendars — they'll be releasing their second full-length, Hoops, on Friday, 7 August. 

Recorded, produced and mixed by Grammy-winning producers David Kahne and Michael Brauer, the boys say they specifically took into account how the album would translate to a live audience. Lead singer Sam Margin says, "We wanted to write songs that would be fun for us to play live as well as fun for our audience to listen and move to.”

The alternative rockers have returned to the music world with Hallelujah, a triumphant first single, out tomorrow, which is a self-professed "stamp-your-feet, fist-pump-the-air, rock anthem". 

Margin explains that the song was born out of simply a beat — "[it] started out with programming a beat, putting it on loop and riffing on it until something decent came out of it. The song itself is about people trying to force their religious beliefs or ideas upon you, and in the process destroying what it is they’re plugging.”

The Rubens' 2012 self-titled debut checked in at #3 on the ARIA Album Charts, in addition to nabbing triple j's Best Unearthed Artist and APRA's Best Rock Work for My Gun.