Assai Obi Edition

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• Hand-numbered*

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Tracklist:

1. The Kids Won’t Stop
2. Days Of Our Lives
3. Mr. Sunflower
4. There Is My Heart
5. Out For The Weekend
6. Fall Apart
7. All Aboard
8. Money Go Round
9. Venus
10. My Life
11. Starting Monday

Its been over seven years since The Rifles released their previous record, but now the east Londoners are set to return with their new album Love Your Neighbour on April 26 which they today preview with the new single The Kids Wont Stop. Their previous two albums – Big Life and None The Wiser – achieved the highest chart positions of their career to date, while their cult-like popularity has continued in the intervening years with countless sold-out London shows at venues including the Roundhouse, O2 Shepherds Bush Empire, O2 Kentish Forum, KOKO, Electric Ballroom and Electric Brixton. The triumphant reaction and electrifying energy of those shows inspired The Rifles as they sent about writing Love Your Neighbour. Its a record which bursts with the traits that have inspired such devotion amongst fans: songs as gritty as they are anthemic, and full of lyrics which capture broadly relatable experiences and provide evocative snapshots of modern British life. The overriding message of the album is a plea to embrace the power of your local community. Vocalist/guitarist Joel Stoker says, Love Your Neighbour is saying were all in this big old mess together and it would be good to get along a bit more and enjoy it. Talk to people more, help each other out when you can, say good morning and maybe take your head away from your phone for 5 minutes and appreciate the people standing next to you. Id like to think that the record captures life’s daily situations that we all come across, all wrapped up in 3 minute bundles that you can sing along to. Thats an apt decision of the albums lead single The Kids Wont Stop. It starts with Joel reflecting on how life inevitably changes from the first flush of youth and into the demands of adulthood. But then it races into the frenetic melodic rush of its chorus, which contrasts an array of lifes daily annoyances with the kind of soaring, escapist hook which transports you to an altogether more positive state of mind. Joel adds, The Kids Wont Stop sums up most of our lives at the moment: constantly busy, no time to breathe… but you have to keep going! It still has the high energy Rifles sound, but with a more representative subject matter to our lives at the moment. It is also a good indication of the sound for the album. Completed by Lucas Crowther (guitar), Rob Pyne (bass), Grant Marsh (drums) and Deano Mumford (keys), The Rifles have nonetheless had plenty going on since since releasing Big Life in 2016: regular headline shows and festivals, Joels acclaimed debut solo album The Undertow, a singles collection, an acoustic album recorded at Abbey Road and a live album from Londons Roundhouse. But the predominant factor has been the demands of their lives outside the band, which has made it hard for them to find an opportunity to all be able to work together. Yet as their live shows continued to sell-out, often far in advance, The Rifles wanted to repay fans by making a new album. They actually had a records worth of material prepared early in 2022, but instead took the time to keep on writing new songs to ensure that Love Your Neighbours lived up to its full potential and ensured that the wait was well worth it. They recorded the album at Joels home studio in Walthamstow, east London, which allowed them the freedom to work whenever was convenient.