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Nelly Furtado details new John Congleton-produced record The Ride

12 December 2016, 14:48 | Written by Laurence Day

Canadian pop star Nelly Furtado takes a new path on "Pipe Dreams", the first single from upcoming LP The Ride.

The Ride will be Furtado's sixth studio record, and her first since 2012's The Spirit Indestructible. It's produced with John Congleton (St. Vincent, Explosions In The Sky), and sees the pop treasure move towards the leftfield - "Pipe Dreams" itself was written while on a water walk in Kenya.

“It was kind of cool, because I'm super pop – I really gravitate toward pop melodies when I write – but John is really interesting and might rearrange my pop song into more of a punk arrangement, nothing like what I would do," Furtado says to The FADER.

Furtado adds that much of The Ride looks at "the comedown, the hangover after the rush, and how you put the pieces back together, and how you make amends with the realer parts of life."

Watch the album trailer below and view the tracklist and release details after.

Tracklist:

  1. Cold Hard Truth
  2. Flatline
  3. Carnival Games
  4. Live
  5. Paris Sun
  6. Sticks and Stones
  7. Magic
  8. Pipe Dreams
  9. Palaces
  10. Tap Dancing
  11. Right Road
  12. Phoenix
The Ride is released 31 March via Furtado's own Nelstar Entertainment.
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