Jesus Jones have released ‘Bad Zoo Rescue’, the third track previewed from their forthcoming eighth studio album Twilight, extending the band’s return to recording with another chapter in a catalogue that began in the late 1980s.
by Paul Cashmere
Jesus Jones have released ‘Bad Zoo Rescue’, the third single from their forthcoming album Twilight, due on 21 September 2026. The track follows ‘Shot In The Chevy’ and ‘All Falls To Me’, giving listeners another indication of the musical range of the British alternative rock band’s first studio album in eight years. A video for ‘Bad Zoo Rescue’ was filmed between May and August 2026 at Doddington International Studios and in Alan’s Bathroom.
‘Bad Zoo Rescue’ is the latest piece of a record that has been taking shape as Jesus Jones reassess what the band should sound like more than three decades after their commercial breakthrough.
Twilight is the eighth studio album from Jesus Jones and follows 2018’s Passages and Voyages. The record represents the latest stage in a career that has moved between alternative rock, electronic music, industrial textures and pop, rather than remaining tied to the sound that made the band internationally successful in the early 1990s.
The album’s three released tracks also illustrate that breadth. ‘Shot In The Chevy’ introduced the project, followed by ‘All Falls To Me’, a song built around flamenco influenced guitar, electronic rhythms and a lyrical examination of solipsism.
For frontman Mike Edwards, the new material developed from the experience of reconnecting with audiences during Jesus Jones’ 35th anniversary world tour in 2023 and 2024.
“We celebrated our thirty-fifth anniversary with a world tour, throughout 2023 and 2024,” Edwards previously told Noise11. “It was such a joyous occasion, reconnecting with the fans who’d been with us, sometimes every step of that journey.”
The experience also prompted Edwards to consider how both the audience and the musicians had changed.
“I wanted to still be us but at the same time, to be different, to be more like us now, like the band we’d grown to become,” he said.
That idea provides an important context for Twilight. The album does not appear to be constructed solely as a return to the band’s most commercially successful period. Instead, it reflects a group continuing to work with electronic and rock elements while allowing different influences into the arrangements.
Jesus Jones formed in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, in 1988. Their debut album, Liquidizer, established the band’s electronic rock identity with songs including ‘Info Freako’ and ‘Never Enough’.
The breakthrough came with 1991’s Doubt. The album reached No. 1 in the UK and produced ‘Right Here, Right Now’, which became the band’s defining international hit. ‘Real, Real, Real’ and ‘International Bright Young Thing’ followed, helping Jesus Jones establish a significant audience in the United States as well as Britain.
Their American success was reflected at the 1991 MTV Video Music Awards, where Jesus Jones won Best New Artist. ‘Right Here, Right Now’ and Doubt also received Grammy Award nominations.
The band subsequently pursued a less predictable path. Perverse, Already and London expanded their musical approach before recording activity became less frequent. The release of Passages and Voyages in 2018 ended a lengthy period without a new full studio album.
The significance of Twilight therefore extends beyond the arrival of another Jesus Jones record. It is the band’s first full-length studio project since 2018 and follows a period in which the musicians have been able to measure their legacy directly through live performances.
That legacy will be revisited later this year when Jesus Jones undertake a UK tour celebrating the 35th anniversary of Doubt. The concerts will give the band’s audience an opportunity to hear the album that transformed them from an emerging British alternative act into an international success, while Twilight establishes what the band sounds like in 2026.
Edwards has previously reflected on the unexpected longevity of the Doubt material.
“If you’d have told me, while I was writing it, that I’d still be performing material from that album thirty-five years later, I would have told you that you were stark, raving mad,” he said.
With ‘Bad Zoo Rescue’ now released, the focus shifts to the complete Twilight album on 21 September. The record contains 11 songs, including the three tracks already made public, and marks another recording chapter for a band whose history has been defined as much by reinvention as by its early commercial success.
Jesus Jones – Doubt 35th Anniversary Tour 2026
November 25, Southend, Chinnerys
November 26, London, Dingwalls
November 27, Derby, Flowerpot
November 28, Hertford, Corn Exchange
November 29, Southampton, The Brook
December 2, Gloucester, Guildhall
December 3, Newcastle, Cluny
December 4, Glasgow, Classic Grand
December 5, Dundee, Music Hall
December 6, Carlisle, Fire Station
December 8, Birmingham, Hare & Hounds
December 9, Birmingham, Hare & Hounds
December 10, Bristol, Thekla
Jesus Jones – Twilight Tracklisting
All Falls To Me
Carry The Years Lightly
Still Smiling
When It Comes To You
Shot In The Chevy
Brief Flashes Of Light
Words In A Book
Animal Instinct
This House
This Perfect Place
Bad Zoo Rescue
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