band member, Andy West, had departed the group, and that a third album was set to be released in "early 2020". The album was later revealed to be titled Carousel, with a release date of 7 February 2020. The band released the album's title track as a single with an accompanying music video on 1 November 2019, and then the album's third single, "Imaginary Nation", on 10 January 2020. The band was set to tour the UK & Europe, beginning in London on 21 March 2020, but this was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On April 20, 2022, the band announced they would go forward with their delayed shows in both the UK and European in May, and that the tour would also be their last. Live performances One of Clock Opera's earliest concerts was live accompaniment of a performance by the Rambert Dance Company at Queen Elizabeth Hall in May 2009. Clock Opera performed on the BBC Introducing stage at the Reading and Leeds Festivals in 2011. They played at South by Southwest in 2011 and 2012 and at numerous other festivals such as Great Escape, Liverpool Sound City, Dot to Dot, and Latitude, where they headlined the Lake Stage curated by Huw Stephens in 2012. Clock Opera have supported a number of other bands including Marina and the Diamonds, Maxïmo Park, Metronomy and The Temper Trap. With the release of Ways to Forget in 2012, Clock Opera had their first headline tour in the United Kingdom as well as dates in New York and continental Europe. They toured Germany in September 2012. The Lost Buoys Tour in October and November 2012 covered Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, the UK, Ireland, Japan, France, Luxembourg and Switzerland. During the tour, the band performed on the television programme De Kruitfabriek on the Belgian channel VIER. In 2013, Clock Opera had a concert in Singapore and a short tour in Europe and also performed at the Pukkelpop festival in Belgium. A signature of Clock Opera's live shows is the use of metal tankards and trays as percussion instruments during the song "A Piece of String." Musical style Clock Opera's songwriting process begins with instrumental and found sounds that Connelly cuts up and manipulates into samples. This process is illustrated in a series of "Making of" videos showing, for example, how sounds including a tattoo needle, a washing machine and the buzzer on