New single “1986” evokes a time when the world wasn’t connected by technology, but there was still a strong connection across the globe: music. Specifically in the song, it’s folk in Newcastle and Madrid who are dancing to the same music. The vinyl version also features an exclusive track “Is It Just Nostalgia?” which sees the band time-travelling past ‘The Tube’ and ‘Soul Train‘ to Friday nights of the past. Standby for the follow-up single in July…

Spearmint have been making great records since debut ‘A Week Away’ in 1999 (‘Sweeping The Nation’, ‘A Trip Into Space’, ‘We’re Going Out’). Still the same line-up: Shirley Lee (singing, guitar), Simon Calnan (singing, keyboards), James Parsons (guitar) and Ronan Larvor (drums). This will be their eleventh album proper and the 65th release on their own hitBACK label.

Re-united with producer Rhodri Marsden (Scritti Politti, Cardiacs), the ‘Chase Me’ album tells a story of success, disillusionment, disconnection, peril, and resurrection. Anchored by three chases across a city at night, book-ended by two out-of-body experiences, and working towards a suite of uplifting love songs, it’s a thriller, it’s a horror, it’s an allegory. Song-writer Shirley explains “The story would make a good movie I think… but we don’t know how to do that, so we did this.”

Tracklist

1. Let Him Sleep
2. Go Outside
3. 1986
4. I'm Not OK
5. Feels More Lonely
6. Ellis Kind
7. The Chase
8. Leave Something Behind
9. My One And Only Life
10. Don't Leave Me
11. The Second Chance
12. The First Man On Earth
13. Stop Singing Baker Street
14. Still Falling
15. The Final Chase
16. Time To Wake Up