Neu!'s Michael Rother, Dot Allison and more feature on Andy Bell's forthcoming album, pinball wanderer

While his two previous solo releases (2020’s The View From Halfway Down and Flicker from 2022) were based on material he had been accruing since the 1990s, the forthcoming album, pinball wanderer, is entirely new.

The album's lead single – a cover of The Passions' post-punk classic "I’m In Love With A German Film Star". On pinball wanderer, it’s retitled "i’m in love..." and features vocals from Dot Allison and guitars from Michael Rother. "I went through a stage of playing the guitar part for that song at every Ride soundcheck,” says Andy of the 1981 original. “Erol Alkan has always maintained it’s ‘proto shoegaze’, and I agree."

Speaking of Michael Rother's contributions to the song, he continues: "I met him at his show at the Barbican last February and asked him to remix the song, but instead he decided he wanted to play guitar, which took everything to a whole new level. I was leaving for a tour the next morning and I knew I had to mix the single before I left. Hearing Michael’s guitar parts in the mix was such an incredible feeling; it just fired me up to keep on recording and mixing into the night."

Tracklist:

1. panic attack
2. I’m in love...
3. madder lake deep
4. apple green ufo
5. pinball wanderer
6. music concrete
7. the notes you never hear
8. space station mantra