Tears For Fears reunite announce first album in 17 years The Tipping Point: "Something happens when we put our heads together"

Tears For Fears have reunited and announced the release of The Tipping Point, their first album in 17 years. 

The iconic 80s duo - comprising of Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith - last released an album together in 2004, although they did previously share two new songs as part of a Greatest Hits collection in 2017.

Now, however, they are both back full-time for The Tipping Point, due for release February 25 2022 via Concord Records. 

Alongside the reunion announcement, the duo also shared the audio and official music video of the record's title track, which you can watch below.

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On their comeback (and why it took 17 years in the first place), Orzabal said: "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."

Smith added: "If that balance doesn’t work on a Tears For Fears album, the whole thing just doesn’t work. 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."

Tears For Fears have accumulated five UK Top 10 singles and two UK Number 1 albums - debut record The Hurting and 1989's Seeds Of Love. But it's for their second album, Songs From The Big Chair, for which they're probably best remembered.

Peaking at Number 2 on the Official Albums Chart, it contained the UK Top 10 singles Shout (Number 4) and Everybody Wants To Rule The World (Number 2) which both became chart-topping hits in America.