The Big Pink have announced their first album in a decade, The Love That’s Ours, alongside the release of new single “Rage”. The album follows on from 2012’s ‘Future This’ after which the London-formed group disbanded. Now, singer/guitarist Robbie Furze has reconnected with old bandmate Akiko Matsuura on drums and brought in a new bassist Charlie Barker for The Big Pink reincarnated. The Love That’s Ours was produced by Tony Hoffer (Beck, Air, Phoenix) and features a host of guest collaborators including Jamie T, Jamie Hince (The Kills), Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Ryn Weaver, Mary Charteris, Ed Harcourt and more. The album arrives on September 30 via Project Melody Music.
Furze said of the new album: “Somehow we got here! Our record is about to be released. Thank fuck for that! Getting to this point has been one of the craziest journeys in my life. I truly thought this day would never come. I got so lost, so confused, went down so many rabbit holes, at times running completely blind, so much so that I nearly lost everything that was ever important to me, everything I ever truly loved. This record symbolises so much, it’s my flag on top of the summit. It shows that I finally understand what is truly important. This is the soundtrack of my journey to get here.”
He then added “It was frightening, but beautiful at the same time, full of fun, but hand-in-hand full of terror and sadness, the outcome is that I’m incredibly proud of this work that came out of all of it. I think these may be the best songs that I’ve ever written, they’re certainly the most honest. I would love to thank everyone who was involved in this record because without them we would have never got to this point and maybe I would have not been here at all.”
The Love That’s Ours is preceded by a new lead single “Rage”, which follows on from recent singles “No Angels” and “Love Spins On Its Axis”.
Of the single Furze said: “This was the first song I wrote with the incredible Ryn Weaver. I met Ryn out one night in LA. We locked in on each other at some stupid party and I think we truly fell in love with each other. Not in a sexual way, but in a brother-sister way. We stayed up all night chatting about music and played one another our ideas. We just got each other, it was magical.”
In the last 10 years Furze has relocated to LA from London where he DJd and connected with fellow creatives and in the interview with NME the musician discussed how Wolf Alice helped inspire him to regroup, and why “indie sleaze” is now making a comeback. The Love That’s Ours is available to pre-order now and you can view the album artwork and tracklisting below.
The Love That’s Ours tracklisting:
01. ‘How Far We’ve Come’
02. ‘No Angels’
03. ‘Love Spins On Its Axis’
04. ‘Rage’
05. ‘Outside In’
06. ‘I’m Not Away To Stay Away’
07. ‘Safe And Sound’
08. ‘Murder’
09. ‘Back To My Arms’
10. ‘Even If I Wanted To’
11. ‘Lucky One
