Scissor Sisters: it's time for Magic Hour

Scissor Sisters have unveiled details of Magic Hour, their "future-pop" fourth album. While the world awaits their soundtrack for the forthcoming Fraggle Rock movie , the New York band will release their new LP on 28 May. Magic Hour has been hotly anticipated since Scissor Sisters' released its first single, Shady Love , in January. The track was notable for frontman Jake Shears rapping over Alexander Ridha's oscillating beat, with a cameo by Krystal Pepsy – aka Azealia Banks . The album also features collaborations with Diplo, Pharrell Williams and Calvin Harris. "[Magic Hour] is a sweet joyful melange of beat-driven future-pop," Shears said. "It style-hops all over the place unabashedly." The next single will be Only the Horses, co-produced by Harris, due on 20 May. "When we wrote Horses, I immediately knew [Calvin]'d help knock it out of the park," Shears said. Tickets are now on sale for Scissor Sisters' only 2012 gigs announced so far: London's Shepherd's Bush Empire on 16 and 17 May. Scissor Sisters have sold more than 5m copies of their first two albums. But their 2010 follow-up was a different story: unlike the multi-platinum Ta-Dah and Scissor Sisters, Night Work only managed to go gold. It debuted at No 2.