The Blackout have announced they will release their fourth album ‘Start The Party’ on January 21st 2013 via Cooking Vinyl. The album is the follow-up to the Welsh rockers' 2011 effort 'Hope' and will come out on January 21 via Cooking Vinyl. Speaking about the album, which has been produced by McFly/Kids In Glass Houses knob twiddler Jason Perry, co-frontman Gavin Butler said: "Music can be a great form of escapism and we tried to fully encapsulate that with this record. There's a lot of bands out there at the moment that do deal with this depression and the **** state of the world, but that's just not us." He continued: "We wanted to write about enjoying yourself and not worrying about things. Take a half hour out of your life, switch off and hear something fun!"