Echo & The Bunnymen release their first album of new music in twelve years today (September 18th 2026). “Apples For Isaac” is the band’s 13th album and follows 2014’s Meteorites (and the 2018 compilation The Stars, the Oceans & the Moon). The album is out now on vinyl, CD and digital formats. Listen to Apples For Isaac here.
An untouchable voice singing lyrics that could well be poetry from the stars, set against a musical backdrop capable of levitating listeners without warning — “Apples for Isaac“ is a monumental return from Echo & The Bunnymen. After years spent performing their immense catalogue of classics to audiences around the world, the Bunnymen have recorded an album that is bold and confident and at times even offers the listener a loving embrace. Across “Apples for Isaac”’s eleven songs, Ian McCulloch, Will Sergeant and the band have created an utterly addictive collection that perfectly captures the very essence of what makes the Bunnymen so great.
Apples for Isaac features peerless drummer Clem Burke playing on ten of the album’s eleven tracks. The Bunnymen noted his contribution to the album: “The mighty, legendary Clem Burke – longtime friend of Mac – was integral to the making of the album, and heartbreakingly passed away during its completion… love you Clem X”
“Apples For Isaac” features the singles “Brussels Is Haunted”, “The Light That Surrounds You” and “Take Me By The Hand”.
“Apples For Isaac” tracklist:
1. Take Me By The Hand
2. Can’t Be Sold
3. Brussels Is Haunted
4. I’ll Be Your Sunshine
5. Hijacked
6. The Honey
7. Unstoppable Force
8. The Light That Surrounds You
9. Lab Rats Ran
10. Asimov
“Apples for Isaac has style and swagger” Mojo 4/5
“Sublime songwriting… the Bunnymen here sound reenergized” Classic Pop 4/5
“An album touched by mortality, emerging richer and stranger for it.” Uncut, 8/10
Formed in Liverpool in 1978, Echo & The Bunnymen cast an astonishing brightness into the long shadows of punk rock. From the very beginning, they brought matchless musicality, along with Ian McCulloch’s unmistakable, inimitable British wit and soul, to a body of songs that generations since have learned and sung. Over the years, their poignant and stirring records have been labelled everything from new wave and post-punk to psychedelia and goth. In truth, they are simply the glorious work of one of the greatest rock ’n’ roll bands ever to emerge from Liverpool.
Echo & The Bunnymen are Ian McCulloch, Will Sergeant, Ste Brannan, Simon Finley, Mike Smith and Peter Riley.
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