Peter Murphy returns with brand-new music late this spring as he releases his much-anticipated 10th album Lion, an 11-track collection produced by Killing Joke bassist Youth that the former Bauhaus frontman previewed in rough form over the PA before concerts on his 2013 tour and at a listening party in Los Angeles last fall.While Murphy has not yet announced the albums release, the digital version is now available to preorder via Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.de with June 2 and May 30 release dates, respectively.Murphy will preview the album with a limited-edition metallic-silver 7-inch single featuring a dub mix of Hang Up, the album opener and the records first single, to be released on April 19 as part of Record Store Day. The 7-inch, available at participating independent record shops, will feature non-album track Im On Your Side on the B-side.The Amazon listings for Lion include streaming 30-second samples of each track, and judging by those previews, the record is sonically heavier and more electronic/atmospheric than its predecessor, 2011s Ninth. Murphy previously has called the new album a mixture of stuff, almost like operas for the dispossessed. Its very romantic and very deep and emotional, quite symphonic in places, but then becomes, like, a rabble-rousing pirate sea shanty.