In a BBC interview filmed at their recent O2 Academy 2 show in Oxford, Fixers have confirmed their split from Mercury Records. Frontman Jack Goldstein spoke of “some problems with our label” regarding their refusal to release Fixers’ debut album We’ll Be The Moon.

Goldstein spoke candidly whilst backstage at the gig: “We’ve had some problems with our label, Mercury, deciding to not release the album… there’s been an air of ominous mystique around some of our social networking at the moment because we pulled out of a tour… and as a result of that Mercury have said they didn’t want to put the album out, for numerous reasons…”

Goldstein continued, “The fact is that we own the album, and we have the album, people have gone out and they’ve pre-ordered our album… it feels like we’re doing an incredibly bad thing, but it’s been out of our hands, but now we have our album, the ball is in our court, we can rectify this.”

The album was due for release on 21 May, but no full release date is now set. We’ll Be The Moon is available to purchase digitally through iTunes and Play.com – check the links on the Fixers website – but the CD version is, for example, listed as ‘currently unavailable’ on Amazon.co.uk. Here’s hoping that Fixers can pull something together to get a physical release out there soon, as well as selling lots of tracks and albums online!

The full BBC interview is available here, and the piece also includes some great live footage. For now, why not enjoy the streaming We’ll Be The Moon available through SoundCloud: