Andy Bell live with Ride in London. (Alberto Pezzali / Live4ever)
Ride‘s Andy Bell has shared the video for I Was Alone with his debut solo album The View From Halfway Down out on October 9th.
Bell describes this latest preview as, ‘A Spacemen 3-influenced song about dealing mentally with solitude’, one of the products of sessions with his former Oasis bandmate Gem Archer which saw years of solo material finally brought together in the free time of lockdown.
“I’ve always wanted to make a solo album, I’ve always said I would do it, although I never imagined it happening like, or sounding like, this one does,” he’s said.
“I’d been sitting on this pile of almost finished tracks, along with all the other hundreds of ideas that had fallen by the wayside since I’ve been making music. Lockdown gave me the opportunity to find a way to present it to the world. The album is not about songwriting. There aren’t many verses or choruses, because this album is about sounds, a listening experience.”
