Ride’s Steve Queralt announces debut solo album, shares “Lonely Town” ft Lush’s Emma Anderson
‘Swallow’ will be out June 13, and the album also features Verity Susman of Electrelane and MEMORIALS.
Ride bassist Steve Queralt has announced his debut solo album, Swallow, which will be out June 13 via Sonic Cathedral. Made over the last five years, the album is largely instrumental but does feature vocal contributions from Emma Anderson (Lush) and Verity Susman (Electrelane, MEMORIALS). Susman’s MEMORIALS bandmate, Matthew Simms, mixed the album.
“Swallow has turned out so much better than I had hoped, largely thanks to Emma and Verity’s contributions which sew the tracks together and shape it into an album,” says Steve. “I’d fallen out of love with it so many times I was thinking of calling it Loveless. But then, that wouldn’t be the whole story.”
The first single from the album is the shimmering “Lonely Town,” one of two songs sung by Anderson. “I’d been going through another Joy Division stage and so the rhythm and tempo were the starting point and, once they were in place, the bass part followed naturally,” says Steve. “Emma follows the synth melody for the chorus, but it’s the bridge part that does it for me. Just after we finished it, Emma came up with more vocal parts which were too good to miss out on, so back to the studio we went.”
Emma adds that the lyrics are about “revisiting a familiar place and having your memories jogged and remembering things how they were in reality and not how you thought you remembered them.”
You can watch the “Lonely Town” video below.
Swallow:
Mission Creep
Lonely Town feat. Emma Anderson
High Teens
A Porsche Shaped Hole
Swiss Air feat. Emma Anderson
I Don’t Know How To Sing
Messengers feat. Verity Susman
1988
Motor Boats
