New Album "Sinking Ships" Out On March 31st, 2023
Alberta Cross release the next single to be taken from their forthcoming album ‘Sinking Ships’. For this latest release, they look to American Singer-Songwriter Sharon Van Etten for inspiration and have covered her 2014 song, ‘Every Time The Sun Comes Up’, listen HERE. New album ‘Sinking Ships’, will be released on Friday 31st March 2023, pre-order here.
On the single, Swedish-born lead singer and guitarist Petter Ericson Stakee comments: “Sharon is such a talented songwriter and performer - and I’ve been a fan for as long as I can remember. We certainly didn’t take recording her song lightly - but we are really proud of how it came out. That said, when the song is this good, it does make things easier…Whether it was intentional or not I can’t remember, but I feel our tempo and version captures the mood of when we recorded it - the fear, seriousness and uncertainty of the world - alongside the joy and escapism of just disconnecting and having that stolen concentrated time with our loved ones”. Petter concludes, “I love the self acceptance side of the song - and of course the humour. For me, the song has become a real moment on the record".
‘Sinking Ships’ was written mostly at the legendary The Wool Hall in Frome Somerset with Petter’s long term producer and collaborator, Luke Potashnick - Luke recently bought and renovated The Wool Hall (legendary in part due to Van Morrisson and Tears for Fears recording albums there). Luke comments: “I adore the feeling of this record - when writing together, Petter and I always end up somewhere on the same page - maybe it's the Scandinavian in us, maybe it's the life-stage we both share". He continues: “The cover of Sharon Van Etten’s song is also a really special moment on the record for me. I never know how I truly feel about covers on a record of otherwise original songs…But this song is just so good and again I’m really proud of this version”.
The album, which will be Alberta Cross’ seventh, has definitely taken longer than was first expected, Petter comments: “After everything the world has seen these past two years, the album took longer than we expected to record and release…the writing side of it actually came together quite quickly. But now that it is finally coming out, the timing actually feels serendipitous - the themes and lyrics of these songs do in fact reflect what’s going on in the world today. Even though I wrote some of these tunes a while ago they strangely feel more relevant today than they did back then”.
To celebrate the album release, Alberta Cross will be heading to the Netherlands for three shows - dates below:
- April 7th @ Blue Heart Festival (Alkmaar, NL)
- April 8th @ Heartland Festival (Hengelo, NL)
- April 8th @ Paradiso (Amsterdam, NL)
Since forming in 2005 - Alberta Cross have toured with Mumford & Sons, Portugal. The Man, Neil Young, Them Crooked Vultures (David Grohl, Josh Homme and John Paul Jones) and Rag N’ Bone Man to name a few, performed on TV around the world including The Late Show with David Letterman and Last Call with Carson Daly, had tracks featured in multiple US hit TV series (Million Little Pieces, Sons of Anarchy, Californication) and released six previous albums. Now back in the UK, Petter will be promoting the new album in the UK and across Europe throughout 2023, with US dates to come.
‘Every Time The Sun Comes Up’ is out now through Dark Matter / AMK distributed through Kartel Music Group, listen here.
‘Sinking Ships’ will be released on Friday 31st March 2023 through Dark Matter / AMK distributed through Kartel Music Group, pre-order here.