From Loudersound.
Tears For Fears have released a video for their brand new single The Tipping Point, which you can watch in full below.
It’s also the title track of the band’s upcoming new album, their first since 2004’s Everybody Loves A Happy Ending, which will be released through Concord Records on February 25.
The track The Tipping Point was inspired by a personal tipping point in Roland Orzabal’s own life, capturing the grief of watching someone you love lose their long-standing battle with disease.
“Before everything went so right with this album, everything first had to go wrong, it took years, but something happens when we put our heads together,” says Orzabel. “We’ve got this balance, this push-me-pull-you thing – and it works really well.”
“If that balance doesn’t work on a Tears For Fears album, the whole thing just doesn’t work,” adds Curt Smith. “To put it in simple terms, a Tears For Fears record and what people perceive to be the sound of Tears For Fears – is the stuff we can both agree on.”
Joining Orzabal and Smith on The Tipping Point is their longtime collaborator Charlton Pettus along with producers and songwriters Sacha Skarbek and Florian Reutter.
“When you’ve known each other as long as we have, and have worked together as long as we have, there’s a bond there that becomes familial. So, it’s different from a friendship,” Smith says. “And it’s different from a marriage. It’s literally like that’s your brother. It’s the kind of bond that you can’t really break. It can fall apart at times. You separate for periods, which I also think is healthy, really. But in the end, we always seem to find each other again.”
Earlier this month the band were honoured with the Outstanding Song Collection Award at the 2021 Ivor Novello Awards.
Tears For Fears: The Tipping Point
1. No Small Thing
2. The Tipping Point
3. Long, Long, Long Time
4. Break The Man
5. My Demons
6. Rivers Of Mercy
7. Please Be Happy
8. Master Plan
9. End Of Night
10. Stay
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- Tears For Fears - Tears Roll Down - Promotional Pack - French - box set - Promo - £125.00, $153.75, €141.25 (New Item) (arrived 12-Jan-2023 08:45)on February 1, 2023 at 10:29 am
TEARS FOR FEARS Tears Roll Down (Rare 1991 French promotional-only box including the promotional 7" vinyl single and promotional 2-track CD single of 'Laid So Low', both housed in custom picture sleeves, complete with glossy colour press release card insert & card picture frame, all set inside a unique 7" x 7" slipcase picture sleeve)
- Tears For Fears - The Seeds Of Love - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £35.00, $43.05, €39.55 (New Item) (arrived 24-Nov-2022 14:39)on February 1, 2023 at 10:29 am
TEARS FOR FEARS The Seeds Of Love (1989 UK 8-track LP, picture sleeve with illustrated lyric inner. The sleeve shows mild shelfwear, with the vinyl showing light signs of play)
- Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Run The World - UK - 12" vinyl - £8.00, $9.84, €9.04 (New Item) (arrived 17-Aug-2022 11:11)on February 1, 2023 at 10:29 am
TEARS FOR FEARS Everybody Wants To Run The World (1985 UK 12" vinyl single, re-recorded and released to support the 'Sport Aid' arm of the Band Aid project, also including Running Version. The picture sleeve and vinyl are both in excellent condition RACE112)
- Tears For Fears - The Hurting [2013]: 30th Anniversary Edition - UK - cd album box set - £250.00, $307.50, €282.50 (New Item) (arrived 20-Sep-2022 09:10)on February 1, 2023 at 10:29 am
TEARS FOR FEARS The Hurting (Original 2013 UK/EU Super Deluxe Special 30th Anniversary Edition 4-disc [3CD/1DVD] set comprising the digitally remastered 10-track album featuring the classic singles Mad World, Change, Pale Shelter and Suffer The Children, a 16-track collection of B-sides & Remixes, 10 tracks recorded live for various BBC sessions plus the 'In My Mind's Eye' live concert film which appears on DVD for the first time. This box set was reissued in 2020 and was difficult to distinguish the pressings from outside however, this 2013 is confirmed by the inclusion of the 'Made in Germany' print on the disc inner rim [which is not present with the 2020 press]. All 4 discs are individually issued in card gatefold sleeves and housed together within the 6" x 8" x 1.5" hype-stickered picture box complete with a replica tour programme and a picture booklet containing rare photos & interviews with Roland & Curt!)
- Tears For Fears - Change - UK - 12" vinyl - £15.00, $18.45, €16.95 (New Item) (arrived 26-Sep-2022 10:10)on February 1, 2023 at 10:29 am
TEARS FOR FEARS Change (1982 UK 3-track 12" vinyl single, also including the Extended Version plus The Conflict. The glossy picture sleeve shows a little shelf/ringwear with minimal corner creasing whilst the vinyl shows only light signs of playIDEA412)
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