Busted drop first song in 12 years, and it isn't pop punk

The band is "Coming Home" - and by home, they mean inoffensive electro-pop

Busted are officially back, though not in any form you'd recognise.

Like an Eevee touched by a Water Stone, the former pop-punk band have evolved into something entirely new, though just as equally inoffensive and appealingly marketable as before. The British band has dropped their first track since 2003's album, A Present For Everyone; dropping "Coming Home" ahead of the release of their third studio album due later this year.

"After 12 long years it feels great to say, here is a brand new Busted song," James Bourne told Digital Spy. "We wanted to give this away free to the fans as a gift for supporting us all these years. We can't wait to play it live in the arenas and hear them singing along."

Shifting their style for the new age of Coachella and flower crowns, the new track is driven entirely by its blissed-out synths and vaguely yearning lyrics about missing family; accompanied by a video which sees a couple of pig-faced lovers wandering the countryside and dancing all over Hadrian's Wall.

Pigs, indeed, seem to be the theme of Busted's grand new comeback; as they're set to launch on their UK tour, Pigs Can Fly, at SSE Wembley Arena on 11 May; though it's yet to be seen how this new Busted, and the "Year 3000" Busted we know so well, will be able to comfortably co-exist.

"Busted is very different, but the thing is it's still Busted. The essence of it is still us three," Matt Willis said; with Charlie Simpson adding, "I think people have got to open their minds to embrace something different, but once they go with that it'll be all gravy."

It certainly seems like the band intend to make their return pretty permanent, "We see this as the next part of Busted. Even if we'd got back together for just one more tour, I would've still been happy," Willis remarked. "But the fact this is a whole new thing and a new chapter for Busted is so much more exciting."