The Range announces first album in six years with new cut "Ricercar"

After returning in January with "Bicameral", The Range has unveiled a second new track titled "Ricercar", which is teamed with a Stevie Gee and Essy May-directed video.

Hinton said of the new outing, ""Ricercar" - literally - "to search out". A "Ricercar" in a musical context is a prelude fugue that kind of sets the tableau of a piece to follow. I first heard about the concept of a "Ricercar" in a biography of Bach, who famously encoded his own name in a piece (H having been interchangeable as the name for B-flat at the time). At the time I wrote this song I was listening to a lot of rap from the 90s, specifically DJ Premier beats. As such I was rapidly collecting breaks and had just stumbled upon the Chief Kamanawanalea break by the Turtles and found that if I reordered the sections I could make this kind of palindromic composite break that seemed to propel the song along."

He added, "This song features a vocal sample from Instagram of a singer covering Tamar Braxton’s "My Man". The lyrics are quite personal to me and are a good example of what I try to do in a lot of my songs. I tend to try to find a way to say something that I would never be able to say out loud. I think of my editing of lyrics as a pressure release."

Both of Hinton's 2022 tracks will appear on his Mercury album, which will follow 2016's Potential.

"Mercury is my most wide-ranging album yet," Hinton explains. "My memories of rave music, grime and MPC music are playing heavily in almost every song."

Tracklist:

1. Bicameral
2. 1995
3. Urethane
4. Ricercar
5. Nor For Me
6. Relegate
7. A Tree Day
8. Balm
9. Cantor
10. Every Good Thing
11. Violet