Indie rockers The View are to tour the UK and release a new album next year.

The Dundee outfit have announced they are currently recording their fifth studio album which is being produced by The Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr and Gus Oberg.

The album will be released on Cooking Vinyl in Spring, 2015.

Frontman Kyle Falconer said: "I would say that this is the closest sounding to our debut (Mercury Nominated) album 'Hats Off To The Buskers' …

"We've kept this album quite raw whilst recording so that we will have the ability to play it live as well, if not better, as it sounds on the record."

The band will play several UK shows next year including The Barrowland Ballroom on March 27.

To pre-order the album and tickets for the tour go to http://po.st/TheViewPledgeMusic

Scottish tour dates:

March 27th - The Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow

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March 28th - The Garage, Aberdeen

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March 29th - Ironworks, Inverness

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April 10th - The Liquid Room, Edinburgh

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Listen to the band's hit from Hats Off to the Buskers, Same Jeans here -