Jake Shears revealed new debut solo album to be released this year

Jake Shears has revealed his debut solo album will be released this year.

The Scissor Sisters frontman has been on Broadway and released a memoir since the group went on hiatus in 2012 but now the singer has taken to Twitter to reveal his self-titled 11-track album is set to drop this August.

The openly gay singer said: “I created the record that I wanted to hear, that I felt had been missing from my life.

“It took time, was handcrafted and is something that no one else could have made. These songs were cooked low and slow in the South, in Kentucky and New Orleans, with humor, heartbreak and horns. 

“If it sounds expensive, that’s because it was. This is the sound of actual human beings, playing real instruments onto tape.

“It took two years to make and for months I slept in the studio, behind the old upright piano. 

“Whenever I had any self-doubt, I reminded myself— this is exactly how all of my favorite records were made, with fingerprints, sweat and honesty. It’s a record about finding yourself, again.”

At the same time, Shears released the video for his new single ‘Creep City’ which sees the singer on the cabaret stage presiding over an audience of characters who abandon themselves to the music.

Jake will also make his debut solo TV performance on The Graham Norton Show tonight which airs on BBC One in the UK.

Watch the video below:

Album tracklist

1. Introduction

2. Good Friends

3. Big Bushy Mustache

4. Sad Song Backwards

5. Everything I’ll Ever Need

6. All For What

7. S.O.B.

8. Creep City

9. The Bruiser

10. Clothes Off

11. Palace In The Sky

12. Mississippi Delta (I’m Your Man)