The Hours have announced a December show at Manchester’s Ruby Lounge on Monday December 1.

The Hours released their debut album, Narcissus Road, in the UK on A&M Records in February 2007. The album was described by the London Sunday Times Culture as “A deep, dark, disturbing beauty of a debut album, stalked by Scott Walker, Radiohead, The Blue Nile and Gang of Four” and Q Magazine touted the band as “One of the year’s most tipped bands, with the tunes to back it up”.

The album artwork was created by long time friend and champion, Damien Hirst: a painting of a skull, with clocks for the eyes and one of Hirst’s spin paintings in the background.