Ride announce their seventh studio album, Interplay

The announcement of Ride's forthcoming album is accompanied by the new single, "Peace Sign".
Interplay will follow 2017’s Weather Diaries and 2019’s This Is Not A Safe Place, which re-lit the Ride spark. Produced by the band with Richie Kennedy and mixed by Claudius Mittendorfer, it connects all the dots from their career.

Speaking on the new single, guitarist/vocalist Andy Bell says: “"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.”

Interplay pairs classic Ride lyrical hallmarks such as escapism, dreams, and the dissatisfaction of modern life with a sense of resilience and perseverance that come from imploding, then reforming and finding a way forward to their second peak.

“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," Bell explains.

Tracklist:

1. Peace Sign

2. Last Frontier

3. Light in a Quiet Room

4. Monaco

5. I Came to See the Wreck

6. Stay Free

7. Last Night I Came Somewhere to Dream

8. Sunrise Chaser

9. Midnight Rider

10. Portland Rocks

11. Essaouira

12. Yesterday is Just a Song