PREMIERE: Mexico City - When The Day Goes Dark

Resurgent Brissy outfit Mexico City are all set to drop When The Day Goes Dark, their third album (and first in six years), at the end of the week and, before it hits digital and physical shops so you can add it to your collection, The Music is stoked to be premiering the album in full ahead of its release.

The follow-up to 2009's acclaimed album Brown Bird, When The Day Goes Dark reflects a musical and personal period of progression for the band's members — individually, Ben Carstens, Simon Radich and Adam Toole — traversing their journey through emotional terrain somewhere "between bittersweet melancholy, emphatic vitriol, and weary self-reflection".

We've previously had a taste of the album through first single Down At The Beach but, excellent though the track is, it's hardly representative of the wider breadth of sound and subject the band tackle through their new batch of tunes, from hard-hitting solemnity in Easy Grace and Big Score to stomp-happy blues-rock in Shadow Of A Doubt and the heady waltz of Loose Ends.

The album was made with assistance from veteran producers Jeff Lovejoy (Tex Perkins, The Cruel Sea) and Jamie Trevaskis (Robert Forster, Texas Tea), and officially sees release this Friday, 11 March, via Plus One Records.

If you're keen on what you hear and want to get out to support the band in action, they'll be launching When The Day Goes Dark with a special show at the Junk Bar on Thursday 24 March, or you'll have a couple more opportunities the following month when they support Ben Salter at the Currumbin Soundlounge (Friday 8 April) and The Triffid (Saturday 9 April, also with Front End Loader).

For more information, head to the band's Facebook page and swing them a Like.