Exclusive album stream: James, 'The Night Before'

With a career that includes 10 studio albums, twenty UK Top 40 singles and 12 million album sales so far, James have stepped into the digital age with their new mini-album 'The Night Before', released on Monday and exclusively available to stream in full in conjunction with The Independent, below.

Inspired by past collaborator Brian Eno, for their latest offering members of the band used the internet to swap fragments of their music and innovate around each others' ideas to come up with the seven tracks below. The band are celebrating the release with a UK tour which arrives at the Royal Albert Hall in London tomorrow night before finishing at Liverpool University on Saturday.