AFTER the moon missions of The Race For Space, Public Service Broadcasting return to earth for new album Every Valley, their first on the Play It Again Sam label, on July 7.

Frontman J. Willgoose, Esq has established a reputation for weaving forensic, historical research into evocative storytelling on PSB's albums. This time he is taking a journey down the mineshafts of the South West Wales valleys and using the history of coal mining to shine a light on the disenfranchised.

Every Valley is a record about community and what happens to an area when its lifeblood is ripped out, and as much as anything, it is a metaphor for a much larger global and social malaise.

Public Service Broadcasting present a story of dignity and social responsibility that rails against apathy. In transposing the tale of the South West Wales miners into the 21st century of "fake news", populist politics and a disregard for the voiceless, the album is a resounding call to arms.

J. Willgoose, Esq. explains: “I have no personal ties to mining, be it coal or otherwise, and I have no family links to the area, but something about the story drew me in. Perhaps the romanticism of the valleys and their geography attracted me to South Wales in particular. You can’t always explain these things, as I’ve learned.

"What’s certain in my mind is that this album isn’t just about mining, and isn’t just about Wales. It’s a story reflected in abandoned and neglected communities across the Western world, and one which has led to the resurgence of a particularly malignant, cynical and calculating brand of politics.”

J Willgoose, Esq. has revealed the guest list on Every Valley, saying: "One of the most exciting things about making this album was working with a whole cast of collaborators and musicians, from the local strings players, the Beaufort Male Choir, and our own brass musicians, all the way through to breakthrough acts like Haiku Salut and more established artists like 9Bach's Lisa Jên Brown, Tracyanne Campbell of Camera Obscura and a musical hero to me and countless others, James Dean Bradfield of the Manic Street Preachers.

"I'm so happy - honoured, and humbled, in fact - that we've ended up with all of them on the album. I feel like they've considerably enriched and enhanced our sound and I think the record is all the better for it."

The track listing will be: Every Valley; The Pit; People Will Always Need Coal; Progress, featuring Tracyanne Campbell; Go To The Road; All Out; Turn No More, with James Dean Bradfield; They Gave Me A Lamp, featuring Haiku Salut; You + Me, with Lisa Jên Brown; Mother Of The Village and Take Me Home.

To tie in with the theme, Public Service Broadcasting will play two gigs at the Ebbw Vale Institute in South Wales on June 8 and 9, after the band used the institute's former lecture hall to record the album there in January.