Norway bedroom pop/indie pop/rock three-piece
Chain Wallet have announced the release of their sophomore album titled
'No Ritual'.
The follow-up to 2016's self-titled debut album includes their catchy new single "
Ride", and will be out February 15th on Jansen Records. Pre-order your copy
here.
No Ritual found them emerging to a small cabin on a remote beach in the southwest of Norway. Here, among surfers – and while walking the beaches, drinking wine – they found out what kind of album they were going to make.
While you still can catch a glimpse of Mary Chain here or Johnny Marr there, Chain Wallet are really establishing their own musical identity with No Ritual. Playing an important part in expanding the band’s sound on this record is Chiara Cavallari of the psychedelic shoegaze band FOAMMM. The guys say: “We had been wanting to collaborate with Chiara for a long time, and her ethereal presence is fortunately scattered all over the album.”
Both of Chain Wallet’s albums have followed loose and murky storylines about a conflicted protagonist. Where the first album revolved around themes like unresolved ambition and attempts of letting go of the past, No Ritual finds our anti-hero in state of spiritual limbo, while reaching out and trying to establish new symbolic meanings. The album is a post-apocalyptic dive into the mythical life of the millennial mind.
Check out the album's tracklist and watch the video for "
Ride" below.
Tracklist:
01. Lost Somewhere
02. Final Testament
03. Ride
04. Closer
05. What Everybody Else Could Find
06. Liminality
07. Knowing Eyes
08. No Ritual
09. World I Used to Call Mine
10. Inner Space
