The Dismemberment Plan (Shervin Lainez/Partisan Records)

There’s a device that public officials and other high-profile personalities sometimes employ when making news. Wait for a bigger, unrelated piece of news to drop, then let slip the announcement.

To wit: Aug. 8, 2008. Not only did that day feature the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics in Beijing, it was also the first day of a brief war between Russia and Georgia. Lucky for former Sen. John Edwards, who was the third-biggest story that day when he admitted to engaging in an extramarital affair.

To wit, again: June 26, 2013. As the nation was swept up in the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions in two landmark cases that expanded same-sex marriage rights, D.C.’s universally beloved post-punk band, The Dismemberment Plan, sneakily announced the forthcoming release of their first album in 12 years.

The band announced today that its fifth studio album, Uncanney Valley, will be released Oct. 15 on Partisan Records. It will be the band’s first full-length release of new material since 2001’s Change.

The band’s singer and guitarist, Travis Morrison, did not reply to requests for comment on the new album, or its intentionally misspelled title. But the track list is available, and includes many of the songs the band performed last August at shows in Baltimore and Fredericksburg, Va.

No One’s Saying Nothing
Waiting
Invisible
White Collar White Trash
Living In Song
Lookin’
Daddy Was A Real Good Dancer
Mexico City Christmas
Go And Get It
Let’s Just Go To The Dogs Tonight

Uncanney Valley is The Dismemberment Plan’s first release with Partisan and was recorded by J. Robbins at Magpie Cage in Baltimore.