Primal Scream Release New Song ‘Deep Dark Waters’ From The New Album "Come Ahead" Due 8th November 2024 via BMG

Primal Scream release new song ‘Deep Dark Waters’ from the new studio album "Come Ahead", due for release via BMG on 8th November 2024 - the band’s first new record in eight years.

'Deep Dark Waters' hits with urgency. Heavy basslines, shimmering backing vocals and flamenco guitars create a futuristic hook whilst Bobby Gillespie's lyrics signal a cautionary tale. The track holds up a mirror to the dark undercurrent of our times. We are sailing into Deep Dark Waters. There is still time to change course.

Speaking about the song, Bobby Gillespie said: “Deep Dark Waters is influenced by the writings of Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi. It contains a warning from history. “Those who do not learn from the past are condemned to repeat it”.

The official music video for ‘Deep Dark Waters’ is directed by renowned filmmaker and video director Douglas Hart, whose connections with Gillespie span all the way back to The Jesus and Mary Chain, where he played drums in the group and on the band’s classic debut album "Psychocandy". The new visuals for ‘Deep Dark Waters’ see Bobby Gillespie and Primal Scream bass player Simone Marie Butler in a full technicolour dreamscape, and mark the latest in a long line of collaborations - Hart has created music videos with Primal Scream since 1991. Watch here.

"Come Ahead" is Primal Scream’s 12th full length record and first new music since 2016’s "Chaosmosis". 11 new songs that find the group’s principal songwriter, vocalist and frontman Bobby Gillespie preparing to release some of the most personal songwriting of his band’s career.

‘Deep Dark Waters’ follows new single ‘Love Insurrection’, which has already received critical acclaim, described by MOJO as “a call for peace, love and understanding from within a funky disco fug”, “cosmic” by NME and “a foot stomping slice of jazz-tinged balladry” by The Telegraph

The songwriting process for "Come Ahead" began in 2022, at which point Bobby Gillespie had no idea if he would make another Primal Scream album again. For the first time in a long time, the lyrics came before the music. The story came first. Bobby wrote alone, using an acoustic guitar. Ideas flowed fast, in long bursts of inspiration. This process, in tandem with encouragement from producer David Holmes, provided a new way in. Working with Holmes and Primal Scream guitarist Andrew Innes, the "Come Ahead" sessions were completed between Belfast, London and Los Angeles.

The album artwork was created using a photograph of Bobby’s late father, Robert Gillespie Senior, by Turner Prize nominated artist Jim Lambie. Bobby’s father remains deeply respected for his lifelong commitment to campaigning for social justice, and themes of class run through "Come Ahead". “There is a message of hope in the record,” says Bobby Gillespie “but it’s tempered with an acceptance of the worst side of human nature”.

The time that’s elapsed since Primal Scream’s previous album has seen Bobby Gillespie at his most prolific. Shapeshifting between some of the most celebrated projects of his career whilst steadily stockpiling the songs that would become "Come Ahead". His 2021 memoir "Tenement Kid" was selected as Rough Trade’s Book of the Year, and won the NME Award for Best Music Book. The band’s era-defining Screamadelica album celebrated its 30th anniversary with huge sold out gigs across the UK, including London’s Alexandra Palace. Gillespie teamed with Paul Weller writing lyrics for ‘Soul Wandering’, the first single from his latest album "66", and collaborated with Jehnny Beth in Paris writing and recording an entire album of duets titled "Utopian Ashes". Bobby also collaborated with acid house duo Paranoid London, singing on their new song ‘People (Ah Yeah)’, and composed his first movie soundtrack for the 2023 cinematic release "Five Hectares" with French filmmaker Émilie Deleuze. This myriad of new creative projects provided the vital space for "Come Ahead" to take shape.

The album is released physically on double vinyl and CD with a limited mirrorboard gatefold double silver vinyl available at HMV and indie stores, plus a limited mirrorboard gatefold double red vinyl and an exclusive t-shirt available on the official album store here.