Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth have announced a new collaborative album titled Utopian Ashes. The forthcoming LP will land July 2nd on Jack White’s Third Man Records. The record will also feature Primal Scream members Andrew Innes, Darrin Mooney and Martin Duffy, as well as producer/musician Johnny Hostile, operating as the project band.
In conjuction with the news, Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth have also shared a new video/single called ‘Remember We Were Lovers’. The tender ballad deals with the subject of a marriage that is rapidly falling apart and coming to an end. Shot in black and white, amidst stunning landscapes, you can watch the video down below.
Touching on the single, Jehnny Beth stated:
“In the same way you create characters for a novel, we’ve created characters here. But you put yourself in it, because you’re trying to understand the human situation. The singing has to be authentic. That’s all that matters.”
Bobby Gillespie added:
“When you write a song you marry the personal with the fictional and make art. was thinking about two people living alone, together but apart, existing and suffering in a psychic malaise, who plough on because of responsibilities and commitments. It’s about the impermanence of everything — an existential fact that everyone has to face at some point in their lives.”