UK group Keane has announced they will undertake a short North American tour this June in support of their upcoming album.

The tour will kick off June 12 at the House of Blues in Boston and will run through June 30 when the band takes the stage at the Fox Theatre in Oakland, Calif. In between, the band will play N. Bethesda, Md.; New York; Philadelphia; Montreal; Toronto; Nashville; Chicago; Milwaukee; Denver; Salt Lake City and Los Angeles.

For most dates, the band will be supported by Mystery Jets, though that band will not play at the Nashville, Chicago or Milwaukee shows. It has not yet been announced if there will be a different opening band at these dates.

The tour is in support of the band’s upcoming fourth album, Strangeland, which is set to be released on May 8 in the United States. This album will mark the first full-length studio album the band has released since 2008.

Keane originally formed in the late 1990s, and received acclaim for their 2004 debut album, Hopes and Fears. Sales of that album were propelled by a slew of singles, most notably “Somewhere Only We Know.”

While that album didn’t crack the top 40 on the Billboard 200 albums charts, the group’s follow up debuted at number four. Under the Iron Sea, released in 2006, has since gone on to sell more than 3 million copies around the world.

While the band has only released one full-length since that time (2008’s Perfect Symmetry), they did release an EP called Night Train in 2010.

In other Keane news, the band recently announced that they would play a special acoustic performance for Record Store Day this year at London’s Rough Trade East record store. Record Store Day will be held on April 21 this year, and is an annual day to celebrate independent record stores.

British alternative rock group Keane will be back in the US this summer to promote “Night Train”, their new eight-song EP, which hit retailers this week.

The tour will kick off in Oakland, CA on July 20 through a performance in Minneapolis, MN on August 11. Travis lead singer, Fran Healy, and Ingrid Michaelson, will be opening for the band. Tickets will be available on May 14. The full list of dates is shown at right.

Despite the band officially categorizing its most recent studio release as an EP, “Night Train” offers eight tracks and runs almost half an hour of new materials.

The album includes “Stop For a Minute” and “Looking Back,” both collaborations with Somali-Canadian performer K’Naan. “Big, bold, catchy anthems, produced in quite a polished way,” Adam Tudhope, the band’s manager, described the K’Naan collaborations to Billboard.com lately.

“Perfect Symmetry”, the band’s latest full-length album, was released in 2008. It peaked at number seven on The Billboard 200 and topped sales in the UK, Mexico and Argentina.