Andy Bell announces second solo album with lead single "Something Like Love"

"Something Like Love" is Bell's first new material since last year's GLOK album Pattern Recognition, and is accompanied by news of his second solo album (under his own name), which will follow 2020's The View From Halfway Down.

Flicker is an 18-track double album, and Bell revealed that he sees the record "as closure."

Bell continued, "Most literally, on a half-finished project from over six years ago, but also on a much bigger timescale. Some of these songs date back to the ’90s and the cognitive dissonance of writing brand new lyrics over songs that are 20-plus years old makes it feel like it is, almost literally, me exchanging ideas with my younger self."

"The 'Flicker' I’m talking about in the lyrics of "Something Like Love" is that flame that makes a person who they are," he added. "I wanted to find that in myself, so I went back to the teenage me – a technique I learned in therapy and have been doing ever since – and got some advice on how to live and be happy in the 2020s."

Bell concluded, "The View From Halfway Down was about turning 50 during a time of introspection; Flicker is about gathering the tools to equip myself mentally for life in 2022 and beyond – post-pandemic, post-Brexit, post-truth."

Tracklist:

1. The Sky Without You
2. It Gets Easier
3. World Of Echo
4. Something Like Love
5. Jenny Holzer B. Goode
6. Way Of The World
7. Riverside
8. We All Fall Down
9. No Getting Out Alive
10. The Looking Glass
11. Love Is The Frequency
12. Gyre And Gimble
13. Lifeline
14. She Calls The Tune
15. Sidewinder
16. When The Lights Go Down
17. This Is Our Year
18. Holiday In The Sun