Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth announce joint album with lead single "Remember We Were Lovers"

"Remember We Were Lovers" is the first song to be shared from their joint album, and sees the duo explore the loss and miscommunication of a married couple as their relationship breaks down.

Beth says, "In the same way you create characters for a novel, we’ve created characters here. But you put yourself in it, because you’re trying to understand the human situation. The singing has to be authentic. That’s all that matters."

Gillespie adds, "When you write a song you marry the personal with the fictional and make art. I was thinking about two people living alone, together but apart, existing and suffering in a psychic malaise, who plough on because of responsibilities and commitments. It’s about the impermanence of everything - an existential fact that everyone has to face at some point in their lives."

The pair first met in 2015 after being invited to perform with Suicide at The Barbican in London. They cemented their friendship further the year after when Beth joined Primal Scream on stage for a duet of Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood's "Some Velvet Morning". In 2017 Beth and Gillespie met up in Paris with Johnny Hostile and the rest of Primal Scream for some sessions, which started the formation of Utopian Ashes.

"I wanted to put pain back into music," Gillespie says. "I wasn’t hearing a lot of it in modern rock music."

Tracklist:

1. Chase It Down
2. English Town
3. Remember We Were Lovers
4. You Heart Will Always Be Broken
5. Stones of Silence
6. You Don’t Know What Love Is
7. Self-Crowned King of Nothingness
8. You Can Trust Me Now
9. Living A Lie
10. Sunk In Reverie