Spector announce first album in six years with lead single "Catch You On The Way Back In"

"Catch You On The Way Back In" is the first song to be lifted from the group's long-awaited third album, marking their first new release since last year's Extended Play EP.

Lead vocalist Fred Macpherson says of the album's first single, ""Catch You on the Way Back In" is a 160bpm bon voyage: An "until next time" for when you don’t know how long the next time might be. It's music for closing and music for opening, and strangely both the first track we started for the album and the last before we didn’t see each other in the flesh for six months. It’s more of a drinking song than a thinking song, so it will probably make most sense when we’re all allowed in the same room again."

Progress on Now Or Whenever started in spring 2020 when the pandemic began, and saw Macpherson and Jed Cullen work with friends and collaborators both online and in person when they could. The final tracks for Spector's new album were recorded at the start of 2021 at Liverpool's Coastal Sound by Rich Turvey (Blossoms, The Coral). The upcoming album also marks their first record with live instrumentation, and saw the drums recorded on 30-year-old tape by Nicolas Py.

Nor Or Whenever will be Spector's first album in six years, after 2015's Moth Boys.

Macpherson adds of the album, "In some ways this is our first proper guitar album, and the first album we’ve made in one studio in one sitting which is crazy. Next year will be the tenth anniversary of Enjoy It While It Lasts which feels like forever, but I think it’s taken us that long to work out what’s good about us and how to capture it. Which kind of makes Now or Whenever both a sequel and a reboot. Had last year unfolded differently, maybe this would be our big depressing opus, but when positivity’s taken away you have to create your own, and somehow that’s left us with our most upbeat record yet."

Tracklist:

1. When Saturday Comes
2. Catch You On The Way Back In
3. Do You Wanna Drive
4. Norwegian Air
5. Funny Way of Showing It
6. No One Knows Better
7. I’m Not Crying You’re Crying
8. Bad Summer
9. D-Roy
10. This Time Next Year
11. An American Warehouse In London