The London’s rock band The Libertines shared a new teaser video on Twitter today, titled ‘Giddy-up…’ with an eyes emoji. The sixteen second long clip is a mix of live footage of the band with their single ‘Don’t Look Back Into The Sun’ playing in the background. At the end of the clip appears an inscription: ‘Announcement Incoming’.

No more details have been shared so far. Pete Doherty replied to the Tweet with a heart emoji. Excited fans followed up with speculations about tour and new music commenting: “New album pls and thanks”, “Release the album!!!” and “Album and Tour”. 

— Peter Doherty (@petedoherty) April 8, 2021

The Libertines last out of four albums was released in 2015 and reached No.3 in UK Charts. Last year Carl Barat spoke about their long awaited new music after ‘Anthems for Doomed Youth’ saying: “It’s been going well, but it’s been difficult with COVID”.  Barat told NME: “We started writing here, and that was going really well but John [Hassall, bass] is in Denmark and Pete [Doherty] is in France. It’s been a fucker to travel. We’re just waiting to get back on it, really. We’re all writing and it’s all positive. We’re just waiting to get back and lay stuff down, it’s just a matter of when. It would be nice if we could do it here. That would make a lot of sense. We’ve never been readier. We just need to get together and do it”. 

Talking about band influence for upcoming album Barat said: “If you’re predicting or worrying about how you want your record to sound then you’ve overthought it. It should be something guttural that flows out. You’ve just got to wait for it to be ripe. I think we’ve hit that now. I’m just waiting to be able to commit that to tape”.