Ride share blissful single ‘Peace Sign’ and tell us about new album ‘Interplay’

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Ride have spoken to NME about their defiant new album ‘Interplay’ and shared new single ‘Peace Sign’. Check it out below along with our interview with frontman Mark Gardener and guitarist Andy Bell.The Oxford shoegazers’ first record in five years is due for release on March 29 and marks a period of triumph over adversity for the band as they battled through both COVID and a messy legal battle.

During their downtime, they also binged on Netflix documentaries about free climbers – most notably The Alpinist which inspired their new single.“It’s a bit like [2008 documentary] Man On Wire,” Bell told NME. “It’s about this guy called Marc-André Leclerc and he was an absolute kind of rock star free climber.“I came into the studio with ‘Peace Sign’ and finished it off with a reference to the film.

It’s mainly about this section where he knows he’s gonna climb this crazy rock face and he’s hanging out at his friend’s house while he’s waiting for the right weather conditions.”Bell continued: “At one point, he’s both playing with a three year-old kid in the garden but also watching his weather app and preparing himself for this extremely dangerous moment in his life.

In the song the lyrics are: ‘I think I’m ready / Yes I’m ready, this is the window and I’m not waiting’. All the energy in the song comes from that.”Gardener added: “And also I can’t imagine a better thing to be singing about right now in the current climate than the peace sign.“Everyone needs to be doing the peace sign again.