The Human League Sign To Wall Of Sound
 
First New Album In Nine Years To Be Released In 2010

Wall of Sound has signed legendary Sheffield band The Human League for a worldwide, multi-album deal. The band who has sold over 20,000,000 albums in their career to date will release their tenth studio album, the first since 2001’s Secrets, later this year.

 
One of the most influential acts of the past three decades; the synth-pop sound The Human League pioneered has dominated the charts in recent years, with chart topping artists such as La Roux openly wearing the band’s influence on their sleeves.
 
Still sounding like the future of pop, the band continue to headline festivals worldwide and win over a new generation of fans with collaborations such as Philip Oakey’s recent duet with the BBC Sound of Music 2009 poll winner Little Boots on the track ‘Symmetry’.
 
Signing the deal at Battersea Power Station, the pioneering band now find themselves in good company on a label home to many other forward thinking musical mavericks such as Röyksopp, Propellerheads, Grace Jones, Reverend (and the Makers) and Cosmo Jarvis.
 
Said Philip Oakey, “Emerging from a decade in which everyone seems to have spent their time looking backwards we are delighted to have the opportunity to march forwards once again and attempt to produce new and exciting music in a new and exciting partnership.
 
After a break from recording of very nearly eight years we can’t think of a better situation than working with Wall Of Sound in our ambition to make the best recordings of our career and to further extend the audience for, and the possibilities of, original electronic popular music.”
 
Said Mark Jones, “Never before have The Human League been more relevant musically than they are today. The evolution and progression of electronic popular music is what brings us together. It’s an honour and inspiration to have them signed to Wall Of Sound.  They say ‘never work with you heroes’…. but fuck that for starters.”