The follow-up to 2018’s Let's Go Sunshine will be released in 3 parts, with the full album set to arrive on July 22 via Lonely Cat / AWAL Recording, the first EP, ‘Connection – Echo in the Dark Part 1’ is out now. Pre-order your copy here.
Speaking about writing and recording the LP in Berlin, frontman Luke Pritchard says, alluding to the city's rich musical history, that "A lot of songwriters have found refuge in Berlin. It's a free place, it's not so consumed by commercialism."
"I was looking for something a bit rawer, a little bit more minimal. Sometimes you just pick up these nuances somewhere. It's not necessarily the people, it's the place."
Some of the songs were written in the context of Pritchard getting married and becoming a father for the first time. "I really hope that sense of inner peace comes across," says Pritchard on the changes in his life.
"I really want to have fun with my life at this point. But also - it's kinda a reflection of what I was feeling in real-time in a pre-and-post COVID world. I was reading a lot of sci-fi – like Philip K. Dick, Azimov and surreal stuff like Boris Vian – which is obviously really distracting from what's going on in the world, but helped me be imaginative with the songs."
Check out the tracklist and the video for their new single "Connection", plus listen to "Modern Days" and "Jesse James", below.
10 Tracks to Echo in the Dark Tracklist:
01. Connection
02. Cold Heart
03. Jesse James
04. Closer
05. Sailing On A Dream
06. Beautiful World
07. Modern Days
08. Oasis
09. 25
10. Without A Doubt
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