Scottish rock legends Primal Scream have unveiled their new single “Ready To Go Home” and is accompanying video, they have also shared “The Centre Cannot Hold“.
Both tracks are included on their 12th studio album ‘Come Ahead‘, set for release on 8th November via BMG. Pre-order your copy here.
About “Ready to Go Home”, frontman Bobby Gillespie says :
“After I wrote it, I sang it to my dad the night before he died. It was just me and him in the hospital. His body had given up. I think, when you get old and tired and your body just goes, ‘I’ve had enough. Time to go.’ I was trying to write about that feeling, I don’t know why—maybe I was feeling tired myself. Sometimes I do. When I wrote this song I was thinking, ‘There must be a point in your life where you think, time to go home.’”
Of ‘The Centre Cannot Hold’, he adds: “I have no idea what inspired this song. Is it poking a withering finger at the “lifestyle” delusion? Is it a satire about the new religion of wellness? Well, the verses, at least. Is it a joyful mocking of lovers drowning in their own narcissism? Is it an attack on the extreme centre of political discourse? Or is it about the impossibility of truly knowing another person? We live behind so many masks.”
Watch the Jim Lambie and Alex James-Aylin-directed video below.
Photo credit: Adam Peter Johnson
