’90s shoegaze pioneers Ride have announced their seventh studio album, Interplay, and it’s out March 29 via Wichita Recordings/PIAS.
Since getting back together in 2014, the band have released two other records, 2017’s Weather Diaries and 2019’s This Is Not A Safe Place. The upcoming LP — produced by the band with help from Richie Kennedy and mixed by Claudius Mittendorfer — saw them “go through a lot of ups and downs; maybe the most of any Ride album,” according to guitarist/vocalist Andy Bell. Additionally, its 12 songs take influence from Tears For Fears, Talk Talk, and early U2, which you can hear on lead single “Peace Sign.”
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“‘Peace Sign’ started life as a jam recorded at Marks’ OX4 studio, in early 2021,” Bell says. “We called it ‘Berlin’ and initially it featured Loz on drums, Steve on bass, and myself on a prophet 5 synth. About six months later I got hold of the recording and wrestled it into song form. Lyrically, I was inspired by a film called The Alpinist about the visionary free climber Marc-André Leclerc. Soon after I’d finished working on the song, I remember I was raving to my bandmates about Leclerc at OX4, and a good memory of that time was us all watching that film at Mark’s studio.”
Listen to “Peace Sign,” plus check out the album artwork and tracklisting, below.
Interplay tracklisting
- “Peace Sign”
- “Last Frontier”
- “Light in a Quiet Room”
- “Monaco”
- “I Came to See the Wreck”
- “Stay Free”
- “Last Night I Came”
- “Sunrise Chaser”
- “Midnight Rider”
- “Portland Rocks”
- “Essaouira”
- “Yesterday Is Just a Song”
