Fujiya & Miyagi announce new album "New Shiny Object"

Fujiya & Miyagi, the Brighton, England band made up of David Best, Steve Lewis, Ben Adamo and Ed Chivers, have announced a new album, New Shiny Object, due out October 30 via Impossible Objects of Desire. Alongside the announcement they shared a music video for the record's first single, "Lowest Common Denominator."

Singer David Best described the new single plainly in a press release, saying it "isn't that deep" and that making people dance is as good a reason as any for a song to exist. Of the album as a whole, he said the band aimed for melodies with room to breathe rather than pouring everything out at once, comparing the songs to the connected parts of a watch mechanism.

Despite that lighter framing, Best said the album's lyrics dig into fatherhood and loss, themes he connected to getting older and becoming more willing to say plainly how he feels. "I'm trying to let my guard down," he said, adding that expressing emotion at his age takes more bravery than it once did.

New Shiny Object is the follow-up to the band's 2022 record Slight Variations, and runs nine tracks: "Lowest Common Denominator," "Point 33 Recurring," "158," "Elasticated Waste," "Simple Pleasures," "No Green Light," "Yakult Classics," the title track "New Shiny Object," and "Manufacturing Delays."

With the album still two and a half months away, "Lowest Common Denominator" gives an early look at a record the band says balances danceable hooks with heavier emotional territory underneath, and its October 30 date is now marked on the release calendar.