Plainride Announce Self-Titled Album to Be Released on Ripple Music
Based on a whole lot of supposition and the little bit of timeline details available, I’m going to piece together a narrative scenario around the release of Plainride‘s self-titled third album, and you tell me if it’s plausible or not. Cool? Here we go.
So, Cologne-based heavy rockers Plainride recorded their third long-player — a pivotal moment for any act — early in 2022 with guitarist/some-bassist Bob Vogston at the helm. Not much going on at the time in terms of touring, plus the pressing delays that were prevalent throughout 2021-2022 meant that their label, Ripple Music was probably backed up in terms of schedule as well even beyond the six months that the process of making, pressing and advance-promoting an album can take when operations are what passes for generally efficient.
In the meantime, Plainride end up booked for a Spring run through Europe as support for Corrosion of Conformity. Legends. Legitimately the biggest thing that’s ever happened to Plainride and a tour that, if they’re ever going to tour, is the tour they want to do. Of course they do it. It wrapped up like a week or two ago. Everybody looked thrilled in the end-of-tour photo, if tired.
But before they went, Plainride offered up Plainride, the new album, on their own, releasing it at the end of April through Bandcamp and offering it on CD at the merch table on the tour so that, you know, they’d have something to sell to the new friends they were winning on stage. Sometimes a band in this situation might do a surprise EP or even a single, but I guess if you’ve got the full-length in the can and the occasion is right as this tour clearly was, you go all-in and let the rest shake out later.
The upcoming summer release for Plainride‘s Plainride, then, is that shaking out. Pressing delays are (largely, by my understanding) over, but getting the album out through Ripple now gives broader distribution and an LP-format release to the 10-song collection, and still let the band have a new record to tour on. A little odd as regards timing — to wit, I was waiting for a press release announcement of the album after it was out — but in the long run, it won’t matter in the slightest and everybody comes out a winner.
Make sense? That’s my read on it, anyhow. If I’m wrong, it certainly wouldn’t be the first time.
To the PR wire:
German heavy rock revelation PLAINRIDE to release new album “Plainride” this summer on Ripple Music; preorder available now!
Cologne’s fast-rising heavy blues rock’n’rollers PLAINRIDE are set to issue their third studio album “Plainride” worldwide this summer via Ripple Music. The album is available now through all major streaming platforms.
Hot on the heels of their extensive European and UK tour with Corrosion Of Conformity, Cologne’s own heavy blues revelers Plainride team up with Ripple Music for the official vinyl and CD release of their freshly issued third album “Plainride” this summer!
Listen to new album “Plainride” in full at this location: https://lnk.to/plainride
One thing is for certain: what the Cologne trio has concocted here is the exact opposite of background music: “Plainride” challenges its listeners to grapple with its complexity and demands their undivided attention. Those who pick up the gauntlet will be rewarded. With an eclectic hell ride, a “Strange Brew” full of twists and turns, danceable hooks and shoutable choruses, peppered in equal parts with fury, humor, and intellect.
An almost anarchic album by rock standards that cares as little about convention as it does about authority. Singer Max Rebel has little to do with authority either, and his lyrics, at times cryptically, at times by means of the sledgehammer, deal with structural power relations, mythological ruler figures, and neoliberal hustle culture. If you listen closely, you will discover a rich fund of allusions, quotations, and references in the ten songs, from Allen Ginsberg to Adorno and Marx, to the Bible, the Phoenician Pantheon, and the Chicago Riots of 1968 after the assassination of Martin Luther King.
“Plainride” was recorded, mixed and mastered by guitarist and producer Bob Vogston at Lipaka Studios in January 2022. It features a wide range of guest musicians across its 10 tracks with instrumentation including brass, organ, theremin, harmonica, piano, and percussion.
New album “Plainride”
Vinyl and CD preorder available via Ripple Music: https://ripplemusic.bandcamp.com/album/plainride
Available digitally via Bandcamp and all streaming services: https://plainride.bandcamp.com/album/plainride
PLAINRIDE is:
Max Rebel – Vocals & Guitar
Florian “F.J.“ Schlenker – Drums
Bob Vogston – Guitar & Bass guitar
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