Ride have announced their seventh studio album ‘Interplay’, due out on 29 March 2024 via Wichita Recordings / PIAS.

The band have also shared new single ‘Peace Sign’. Speaking on the new track, guitarist and singer Andy Bell commented, “‘Peace Sign’ started life as a jam recorded at Marks’ OX4 studio, in early 2021. 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.”

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The new record will be the Oxford four piece’s third since reforming back in 2014 and follows 2017s ‘Weather Diaries’ and 2019s ‘This Is Not A Safe Place’. The band have now been together longer in their current second phase than their original iteration as 90’s shoegaze pioneers.

Andy said, “This album has taken a long time to make, and has seen the band go through a lot of ups and downs; maybe the most of any Ride album. But it has seen us come through the process as a band in a good place, feeling able to shake off the past, and ready to celebrate the combined musical talents that brought us together in the first place.”

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‘Interplay’ is out on 29th March. You can pre-order it here: https://t.co/6efhiXFvc9 pic.twitter.com/fmYlhZGij7

— RIDE (@rideox4) January 12, 2024

Ride ‘Interplay’ Full Album Tracklisting:

Peace Sign
Last Frontier
Light in a Quiet Room
Monaco
I Came to See the Wreck
Stay Free
Last Night I Came Somewhere to Dream
Sunrise Chaser
Midnight Rider
Portland Rocks
Essaouira
Yesterday is Just a Song

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