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Ride release first single for 20 years
By Andy Malt | Published on Friday 24 February 2017
Ride have released their first new music for 20 years, new single ‘Charm Assault’. The track comes from a new Erol Alkan-produced album, due for release through Wichita this summer.
“‘Charm Assault’ is a pretty straightforward expression of frustration and disgust at the people who currently run our country”, says frontman Andy Bell. “The [reunion] tour in 2015 was a good way of reminding us what we were good at in the first place and ‘Charm Assault’ feels like a natural continuation from our peak. When we started writing together again we tried to imagine we’d kept on making music all this time, and this was just the latest one”.
Erol Alkan adds: “‘Nowhere’ and ‘Going Blank Again’ were big records for me and my friends when we were growing up. I’ve vaguely known Andy for a few years through his brother-in-law but we didn’t actually meet until a couple of years back. I had an email from them asking if I’d like to collaborate with the band, and once I’d heard the demos, I was 100% in. Andy’s very well versed in electronic music, so we had a common bond in that as well as alternative music. The new music contains all the great elements you want from Ride – great songs, loud guitars, beautiful harmonies, powerful rhythms”.
Listen to ‘Charm Assault’ here:
