Spector are back with the follow-up to 2015’s Moth Boys.
Spector have unveiled their first long player in six years with its lead track Catch You On The Way Back In.
“Catch You on the Way Back In is a 160bpm bon voyage: An ‘until next time’ for when you don’t know how long the next time might be,” Fred Macpherson says.
“It’s music for closing and music for opening, and strangely both the first track we started for the album and the last before we didn’t see each other in the flesh for six months.”
“It’s more of a drinking song than a thinking song, so it will probably make most sense when we’re all allowed in the same room again.”
Now Or Whenever is out on October 1st, the culmination of writing and recording sessions by the Spector members in isolation since the spring of last year which were eventually completed in January 2021 at Coastal Sound in Liverpool with producer. Rich Turvey.
“In some ways this is our first proper guitar album,” Macpherson continues. “And the first album we’ve made in one studio in one sitting which is crazy.”
“Next year will be the tenth anniversary of Enjoy It While It Lasts which feels like forever, but I think it’s taken us that long to work out what’s good about us and how to capture it.”
“Which kind of makes Now or Whenever both a sequel and a reboot. Had last year unfolded differently, maybe this would be our big depressing opus, but when positivity’s taken away you have to create your own, and somehow that’s left us with our most upbeat record yet.”
Now Or Whenever tracklist:
When Saturday Comes
Catch You On The Way Back In
Do You Wanna Drive
Norwegian Air
Funny Way of Showing It
No One Knows Better
I’m Not Crying You’re Crying
Bad Summer
D-Roy
This Time Next Year
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