Primal Scream unveil new album, Come Ahead, with first single 'Love Insurrection'

Primal Scream have announced their 12th full-length album and first release since 2016's Chaosmosis. 

Come Ahead is due for release on 8th November via BMG. The LP is available to pre-order and pre-save here.

Out today, the first single from Come Ahead finds Primal Scream charged with cosmic energy. On 'Love Insurrection', deep bass and funk guitars clash as woodwinds and strings transcend frontman Bobby Gillespie's lay-down-the-truth lyricism.

Bobby Gillespie. Copyright Adam Peter Johnson

The songwriting process for Come Ahead began in 2022, at which point Gillespie had no idea if he would make another Primal Scream album again. It marked a new creative exercise for the Scottish rock legend where the lyrics came before the music. The process, in tandem with encouragement from producer David Holmes, provided a new springboard from which to jump. Working with Holmes and Primal Scream guitarist Andrew Innes, the Come Ahead sessions were completed between Belfast, London and Los Angeles.

The times that's elapsed since the Scottish band's previous album has seen Bobby Gillespie at his most prolific and personal, shapeshifting between some of the most celebrated projects of his career whilst steadily stockpiling the songs that would become Come Ahead.

“I'm very excited about this album in a way that you would be making your first record. If there was an overall theme to Come Ahead it might be one of conflict, whether inner or outer. There is also a thread of compassion running through the album," Gillespie says of the album.

"The title is a Glaswegian term. If someone threatens to fight you, you say, ‘come ahead!’ It’s redolent of the indomitable spirit of the Glaswegian, and the album itself shares that aggressive attitude and confidence. They have a word for this up there, gallus. Come Ahead’s quite a cheeky title too.”

The album artwork was helmed using a photograph of Gillespie's late father, Robert Gillespie Sr, by Turner Prize-nominated artist Jim Lambie. See below for full album tracklisting.

Come Ahead artwork.

Come Ahead will be released on double LP and CD, including limited edition vinyl pressings, and is available to pre-order via the Primal Scream website.

COME AHEAD tracklisting

1. Ready To Go Home
2. Love Insurrection
3. Heal Yourself
4. Innocent Money
5. Melancholy Man
6. Love Ain't Enough
7. Circus Of Life
8. False Flags
9. Deep Dark Waters
10. The Centre Cannot Hold
11. Settler's Blues

Listen to 'Love Insurrection' below.