Audio samples from CHEAP TRICK's forthcoming studio album, The Latest, are available at this location. Click below to pre-order the album, scheduled for release on June 23rd. Amazon will have exclusive rights for one month, and the album will also be available in limited LP and 8-track editions.

According to a press release, The Latest is certainly an album likely to curry favor with the Cheap Trick faithful, filled with anthemic power pop tunes such as 'Miss Tomorrow', 'California Girl', 'Alive' and a cover of SLADE's 'When The Lights Are Out', BEATLESque songs like 'Miracle', 'Everybody Knows' and 'Times of Our Lives', and the power ballads 'These Days', 'Closer...' and 'Smile'. "We wanted to make a record that sounded like 2009, get something that sounds like us this year," drummer Bun E. Carlos explains.

Guitarist Rick Nielsen adds that, "I think it seems like we kinda grew up but didn't too old, 'cause musically there's a lot of different aspects to it. When you hear something like ('Sick Man Of Europe'), you think, 'This can't be the same guys.' It sounds too energized for what people expect from somebody who's been around as long as we have...But musically I think it sounds like we grew up a bit."

Besides The Latest, Cheap Trick has also recorded a version of the 'Transformers' theme for the Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen soundtrack, which also comes out June 23. Click below to listen.

The Latest tracklisting:

'Sleep Forever' (1:37)

'When The Lights Are Out' (3:26)

'Miss Tomorrow' (4:11)

'Sick Man of Europe' (2:08)

'These Days' (2:44)

'Miracle' (3:47)

'Everyday You Make Me Crazy' (1:17)

'California Girl' (2:47)

'Everybody Knows' (4:16)

'Alive' (3:36)

'Times of Our Lives' (3:59)

'Closer, The Ballad of Burt and Linda' (3:00)

'Smile' (4:12)