In a post on their official website, Ted Leo has announced that he and his Pharmacists will release their next full-length through Matador Records. Leo had this to say about the situation:

"During a recent conversation over an iced coffee (and then a couple of shots of Jamesons, if I'm going to be completely honest) with Gerard Cosloy in Austin, Tx., however, I thought, "I should hang out with this guy more often," then later meeting the rest of the incredible staff at the office, and counting myself unaccountably blessed at the uncountable bounty of amazing people and labels that I had before me to potentially work with, I made up my mind to join the Matador team … There are so many options and so many opportunities to do so many things with the music that one makes, but I feel GREAT that as I head off to start mixing some songs this weekend, I can say that I now do so in preparation for an album to be released on Matador Records, most likely sometime in the coming spring."

The band's previous full-length was 2007's Living with the Living; an EP entitled Rapid Response followed in 2008. Both releases were handled by Touch and Go Records, a legendary label that unfortunately closed their distribution arm earlier this year. Although the label itself is apparently still in business -- and reissued three records from The Jesus Lizard just this week -- Leo made it clear that the label's downsizing left his band without a home:

"Soooooooooooooo, as many of you know, our beloved Touch & Go Records was forced to shut down most of its operations early last spring, leaving everyone mourning and filled with more questions than we thought we'd have to keep asking ourselves in 2009, and leaving us, specifically, again label-less."

The entire post can be read here.