Squeeze return on October 2 with new album Cradle To The Grave, their first album of new songs since Domino in 1998. An early run of 1,000 copies is on sale now via Squeeze’s website.

Cradle To The Grave is produced by Glenn Tilbrook with Laurie Latham, who produced Squeeze’s 1985 album Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti. First single Happy Days is available now, while the title track and Top Of The Form have been previewed live.

Squeeze’s line-up features Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford, with drummer Simon Hanson and keyboardist Stephen Large, who joined Squeeze when the band reformed in 2007. John Bentley, previously Squeeze’s bassist from 1980-82 before rejoining in 2007, played on sessions for the album before he left in 2014. The remaining bass is by new bassist Lucy Shaw, formerly of Oi Va Voi.

Cradle To The Grave is also being used as the soundtrack to September’s new BBC1 comedy-drama of the same name, based on Danny Baker’s autobiography, which stars Peter Kay as Baker’s dockworker father Fred.

Tilbrook said: “When I read the book, I got in contact with Danny and said that I thought we could do something together with his book. Danny was already talking with??his co-writer Jeff Pope about a TV series, and the mood and sentiment of Cradle were completely in sync. Danny and Jeff both loved it, and everything else followed on from there.”

Explaining the wait for a new album, Tilbrook said: “Four years ago we agreed that, if we were to carry on, we really needed to work on new material.” Difford added: “We’ve grown up a lot in the last few years, musically. We still love our own past but, as musicians, we needed to grow.”

The full tracklisting of the album is:??

Cradle To The Grave; Nirvana; Beautiful Game; Happy Days; Open; Only 15; Top Of The Form; Sunny; Haywire; Honeytrap; Everything; Snap, Crackle And Pop.

Everything But The Girl??are to reissue deluxe versions of their final two albums.??

Having expanded their previous seven albums, Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt are to reissue 2CD editions of 1996’s Walking Wounded and 1999’s Temperamental on October 23.??

Walking Wounded adds 11 remixes chosen by Watt, including a previously-unreleased Nellee Hooper mix of Before Today, as well as three live songs recorded in Tokyo, two demos and two unreleased songs – Above The Law and the instrumental track Speeding Car Side On. Remixers on the bonus disc include Dilinja, Photek, Chicane and Adam F. It also adds standalone single Corcovado, which was released in 2002 and is the duo’s final release to date.

Temperamental adds 10 remixes selected by Watt, plus the previously-unreleased song Come In, Five Fathoms’ B-side Firewall and a live version of the title track recorded at London’s Forum. Remixers on the bonus disc include Wamdue, Kenny Dope and J Majik.??

Both albums include new sleevenotes written by Thorn and Watt as well as memorabilia from the duo’s collection and unseen photos.??

Speaking to Classic Pop in May around the release of her book Naked At The Albert Hall, Thorn didn’t rule out future albums by the husband-and-wife pair, saying: “Ben and I have always said it’s a possibility. But we’re both anti-nostalgia, and the worry about what kind of album it should be is inhibiting. Should it be acoustic and folky, or should it be electronica? We could do something that isn’t under the EBTG name, because that might be less pressurised.”