The 36-year-old eccentric singer/songwriter and pianist Amanda Palmer is preparing to release her first studio album in four years titled "Theatre Is Evil" next month, September 10th, and recently announced a UK tour for later this year as part of a full European tour. This is the first release with her new band The Grand Theft Orchestra, and will be preceded by the single "Want it Back" on September 3rd.

Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra unleashed the new Want It Back music video June 19th, offering another taste from the new album. The video is a stop-motion animated video created with Australian director Jim Batt, and shot in Melbourne when Palmer and her band were recording the new album this past spring. You may watch it below.

I've never made a video with such a small, concentrated art-crew, and it was magic," she notes. "For three days straight it was just me, Jim, the tattoo-graffiti artist Curran James, and a painstaking process as we created the video, shot by shot by shot." Jim Batt explains, "Hand crafting a film frame-by-frame is always an intense experience, even more so when you're using someone's body as a canvas, but there's something magical about stopmotion that you can't capture any other way. I'm still impressed that we managed to get Amanda to sit still for that long, she was a champion!"

Amanda Palmer UK & Ireland Tour Dates are as follows:

• Tue October 23rd 2012 - KOKO, London
• Wed October 24th 2012 - Manchester Cathedral, Manchester
• Thu October 25th 2012 - Glasgow Oran Mor, Glasgow