{"id":2224677,"date":"2026-01-06T18:53:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T18:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2224677"},"modified":"2026-01-06T18:53:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T18:53:42","slug":"kneecap-say-new-album-is-coming-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kneecap-say-new-album-is-coming-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"KNEECAP say new album is coming this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"intro\">Their last LP, <i>Fine Art<\/i>, was released in 2024.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fl big-m\">\n<p>KNEECAP have said they will release a new album this year.<\/p>\n<p>The hip-hop trio took to social media to tease the plans, promising fans that the new year would have &#8220;big things&#8221; in store, additionally emphasising that nothing is more important than &#8220;supporting each other&#8221; and &#8220;taking action for Palestine&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>These plans follow news that the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hotpress.com\/music\/kneecap-face-new-legal-threat-as-british-government-appeals-mo-chara-charges-23123377\">previously dropped terror charges against Mo Chara are being appealed by the British government.<\/a> The Magistrates Court originally threw out the charges in September, with the case now set to be heard at the High Court of Justice in London on January 14.<\/p>\n<p>KNEECAP released their sophomore album\u00a0<em>Fine Art\u00a0<\/em>in 2024, and released latest singles &#8216;Sayonara&#8217; and &#8216;No Comment&#8217; featuring <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hotpress.com\/sub-focus\">Sub Focus<\/a>, this past Autumn. Their self-titled 2024 film received critical acclaim, earning them a British Independent Film Award for Best Original Music, as well as being shortlisted by the Oscar&#8217;s for Best Original Song.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, the Belfast group performed their first major gigs in Japan, performing at the Rockin&#8217; On Sonic festival, as well as a show in Tokyo. They are set to return to the Reading and Leeds festival this summer, along with performances at Primavera and All Together Now.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>See their announcement below:\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DS7zwvRguZW\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<\/blockquote><\/div><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.hotpress.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Their last LP, Fine Art, was released in 2024. KNEECAP have said they will release a new album this year. The hip-hop trio took to social media to tease the plans, promising fans that the new year would have &#8220;big things&#8221; in store, additionally emphasising that nothing is more important than &#8220;supporting each other&#8221; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2224678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2224677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/KNEECAP-say-new-album-is-coming-this-year.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2224677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2224679,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224677\/revisions\/2224679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2224678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2224677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2224677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2224677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}