Last month, RIDE detailed plans for new album Interplay, their third since reforming a decade ago, and supplied a lively lead single in “Peace Sign” that proves the legendary Oxford band hasn’t missed a beat. Now they’re taking their ‘gaze back across the Atlantic for a spring tour of North America, and included in the 10-show run is a tour kickoff May 11 twirl at Big Night Live in Boston.
The tour will showcase seventh studio album Interplay, set for release March 29 via Wichita/PIAS; it’s the follow-up to 2019’s well-received This Is Not a Safe Place. “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,” Andy Bell says. “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.”
Check out all the upcoming shows in our corner of the world, and fire up the shimmering “Peace Sign” below via Spotify.
“‘Peace Sign’ started life as a jam recorded at Marks’ OX4 studio, in early 2021,” Bell adds. “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.”
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