
Andy Bell announces album as GLOK with new Sinead O'Brien collaboration "Maintaining the Machine"
30 June 2021, 17:09
| Written by
Cerys Kenneally
Ride's Andy Bell has announced a new album under his GLOK moniker, Pattern Recognition, and has recruited Sinead O'Brien to feature on the lead single "Maintaining the Machine".
GLOK is Bell's electronic alias, and today (30 June) he's shared new song "Maintaining the Machine", which features vocals from Sinead O'Brien and bass from Primal Scream’s Simone Marie Butler.
The song is accompanied by news of GLOK's new album Pattern Recognition, which will also include March's "That Time Of Night" featuring Shiarra.
Bell says of his GLOK project, "GLOK is all about the push and pull between electronic and psych in my music."
Tracklist:
- Dirty Hugs
- Closer
- That Time Of Night (feat Shiarra)
- Process (feat Shamon Cassette)
- Memorial Device
- Maintaining the Machine (feat Sinead O'Brien and Simone Marie Butler)
- Kintsugi
- Entanglement (feat C.A.R.)
- Day Three
- Invocation
"Maintaining the Machine" featuring Sinead O'Brien is out now. GLOK's Pattern Recognition album will be released 1 October via Bytes, and is available to pre-order now.
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