YORK Indie band Shed Seven has announced that its first album in 16 years will be released on November 10.

The band that this week celebrated launching its own beer and a UK-tour that is rapidly selling out looks set to make a triumphant returns this winter, having recently signed to the BMG label.

Shed Seven were one of the leading lights of Britpop with two gold albums and 15 Top 40 singles under their belt.

The band’s new album Instant Pleasure is produced by legendary producer Youth from Killing Joke, who's previously worked with musicians such as Kate Bush, U2, Depeche Mode and The Charlatans.

Instant Pleasures, they say, is the most fitting title for this, their fifth album and their first since 2001's Truth Be Told.

Frontman Rick Witter said that it works in two ways. Not only is it a comment on our tech-obsessed, social media crazy, instantaneous world, it's also a literal tongue-in-cheek reference to the tracks themselves.

“Whatever you want these days you just click a button and you're instantly pleasured,” says Witter. “It's certainly the way the world seems to turn at the minute. But it's also a nice little nod because if you were to play our album you'd be instantly pleasured. There are twelve pretty damn cool songs on there.”

The first single to be taken from the album is Room In My House - described as a thunderous indie-rock anthem with Rick Witter's distinctive vocals driving a track that wouldn’t sound out of place on their classic 1996 album A Maximum High.

In November and December, the band will undertake the biggest tour of their career, aptly-titled #Shedcember. They’ve sold over 50,000 tickets across the country with more shows being added to an ever-extending tour schedule.

They will announce two warm-up dates at York Fibbers soon.