Primal Scream Release Two New Songs ‘Ready To Go Home’ & ‘The Centre Cannot Hold’ - From The New Album Come Ahead Due 8th November 2024 Via BMG

Primal Scream release ‘Ready To Go Home’ and ‘The Centre Cannot Hold’, two new songs taken from "Come Ahead", the new studio album due for release on 8th November 2024 via BMG.

At once completely fresh, exciting, and instantly Primal Scream, ‘Ready To Go Home’ is the album’s opening statement of intent. Speaking about the song, Bobby Gillespie said:

“It’s a joyous acceptance of death. It’s dark, but it’s also up, full of humour. After I wrote it, I sang it to my dad 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 just goes, ‘I’ve had enough. Time to go.’ I was trying to write about that feeling, I don’t know why - maybe I was feeling tired myself. Sometimes I do. When I wrote this song I was thinking, there must be a point in your life where you think, time to go home.”

"Ready To Go Home" is matched with a remix from UK house legend Terry Farley and Wade Teo. A dub version of the mix was released earlier this summer on a very limited edition white label 12”, today the full vocal mix is available digitally for the first time and arrives 34 years after Terry Farley first created the seminal ‘Loaded’ and ‘Come Together’ remixes for Primal Scream.

‘Ready To Go Home’ and ‘The Centre Cannot Hold’ follow new tracks ‘Deep Dark Waters’ and ‘Love Insurrection’ which have already received critical acclaim, the latter 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 11 track album finds the group’s principal songwriter, vocalist and frontman Bobby Gillespie preparing to release some of the most personal songwriting of his band’s career. The 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. Bobby also sings on six new songs on the forthcoming Peter Perrett album, "The Cleansing". This myriad of new creative projects provided the vital space for "Come Ahead" to take shape.

"Come Ahead" 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.