Primal Scream: Two More New Tracks From Upcoming Album
THE Primal Scream share two new songs, “Ready To Go Home” And “The Centre Cannot Hold” new extracts from the upcoming 12th studio album “Come Ahead“, their first in eight years
Primal Scream have released two new songs, ahead of their upcoming album “Come Ahead”.
Today (September 25), the band released the two singles “Ready To Go Home” And “The Center Cannot Hold” on streaming platforms via BMG, tracks that come after “Deep Dark Waters” and “Love Insurrection.” “Come Ahead” is scheduled for release on November 8.
“It’s a joyful acceptance of death. It’s dark, but also cheerful, full of humor,” says frontman Bobby Gillespie of “Ready To Go Home“, the album’s opening track.
The author says he sang the lyrics to his father, Robert Gillespie Sr., the night before he died. “It was just me and him in the hospital. His body had given up. I think when you get old and tired and your body says, ‘I’ve had enough. It’s time to go.’ I was trying to write about that feeling, I don’t know why, maybe I was feeling tired too. I do that sometimes. When I wrote this song I thought there’s a moment in your life when you think, ‘It’s time to go home.'”
The track was previously released as a dub remix by British house veterans Terry Farley And Wade Theo.
These last two songs bring the number of singles from the upcoming album to four. The first one is “”Love Insurrection“, contained part of the text in Italian (Read here), while the second “Deep Dark Waters” is influenced by the writings of Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi (Read here)
The new project will mark the band’s 12th studio album and first full-length LP since 2016’s Chaosmosis. It will feature 11 new songs that Gillespie began writing in 2022, at a time when he was unsure whether he would ever make another Primal Scream album.
According to a press release, the entire LP began with lyrics, marking the first time in a long time that the words preceded the music.
“The story came first. Bobby wrote alone, using an acoustic guitar. The ideas flowed quickly, in long bursts of inspiration,” the statement reads. “This process, along with the encouragement of producer David Holmes, provided a new avenue of access. Working with Holmes and Primal Scream guitarist Andrew Innes, the Come Ahead sessions were completed in Belfast, London and Los Angeles.”
“I’m very excited about this album, as you would be about your first record. If there was an overarching theme for ‘Come Ahead’ it would be conflict, both internal and external,” Gillespie said of the new LP.
“There’s also a thread of compassion running through the album. The title is a Glaswegian term. If someone threatens to pick a fight with you, you say, ‘Come Ahead! ‘ It’s an expression that evokes the indomitable spirit of the Glaswegians, and the album itself shares that aggressive, confident attitude. They have a word for it over there, gallus. ‘Come Ahead’ is also quite a cheeky title.”
The album artwork was created using a photograph of the frontman’s late father, the socialist activist Robert Gillespie Sr.taken by the Turner Prize-nominated artist Jim Lambie. The choice fell on him, who remains deeply respected for his lifelong commitment to the fight for social justice, and class themes are present in “Come Ahead.”
“There’s a message of hope on the record,” Gillespie said. “But it’s tempered by an acceptance of the worst side of human nature.
