Power to Play

On 29 March 2023, McFly announced the album title and release date, following a series of cryptic social media posts.[2]

The official album description reads as follows; "McFly return with their seventh studio album ‘Power To Play’. Tom Fletcher, Danny Jones, Harry Judd and Dougie Poynter are taking things into their own hands in a way they never anticipated. Throwing off the shackles of expectations, focusing on the things they love the most - primarily making music together with raw, loud and live guitars - and delivering their biggest, boldest and most brilliantly noisy statement yet. That statement is 'Power To Play', an all-out celebration of rock music in all forms, that takes McFly back to the very reason they started their journey in the first place."[3]

Describing the record, the band added: “At the start of the process, we all got together and said what we wanted this new album to be. We all had this one thing in common, and it was guitars. We love being on tour and playing live, and we hate this weird pressure where you don't get played on the radio if you have guitars in your songs. That was always in the back of our heads, so we decided to forget all about it and that same day Tom wrote ‘Where Did All The Guitars Go?’ on the way home. On every album, there's a song which becomes a foundation, a lightbulb moment, and this was it. Guitars, honesty, energy, all these personality traits are what give us the band's identity. We want to reach that kid with long hair, get them excited about music and make them want to pick up a guitar and jump on their bed. That's what this record is about.”[1]

The album's lead single, "Where Did All The Guitars Go?" is set to be released on 31 March 2023.[1] Teasers suggest a return to a more rockier sound.

• List of 2023 albums