
Ride bassist Steve Queralt announces debut solo album, Swallow
Steve Queralt, bassist of seminal shoegaze band Ride, has announced his forthcoming debut solo album, Swallow.
Accompanying the album's announcement is the lead single, "Lonely Town" featuring Emma Anderson, formerly of Lush and Sing-Sing.
Speaking of the track, he says: “I'd been going through another Joy Division stage and so the rhythm and tempo were the starting point and, once they were in place, the bass part followed naturally. Emma follows the synth melody for the chorus, but it's the bridge part that does it for me. Just after we finished it, Emma came up with more vocal parts which were too good to miss out on, so back to the studio we went.”
“Swallow has turned out so much better than I had hoped, largely thanks to Emma and Verity’s contributions which sew the tracks together and shape it into an album,” enthuses Queralt on the contributions from Lush's Emma Anderson and Verity Susman of Electrelane and MEMORIALS. “I’d fallen out of love with it so many times I was thinking of calling it Loveless. But then, that wouldn’t be the whole story.”
Swallow will follow his previous solo release (2022’s EP Sun Moon Town), a collaboration with writer and filmmaker Michael Smith.
Tracklist:
- Mission Creep
- Lonely Town feat. Emma Anderson
- High Teens
- A Porsche Shaped Hole
- Swiss Air feat. Emma Anderson
- I Don’t Know How To Sing
- Messengers feat. Verity Susman
- 1988
- Motor Boats
Swallow will be released on 13 June via Sonic Cathedral.
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