Peter Perrett announces new album 'The Cleansing' for November featuring Johnny Marr, Bobby Gillespie, Fontaines D.C.’s Carlos O’Connell + more
Peter Perrett announces new album The Cleansing for November 1st featuring Johnny Marr, Bobby Gillespie, Fontaines D.C.’s Carlos O’Connell + more
Shares new song “I Wanna Go With Dignity” – watch video here
Upcoming London live show at Moth Club
“Something inside me would like to make my best-ever album,” Peter Perrett said in 2007. “Seeing Johnny Cash doing his best work right at the end, makes me feel like just because I’m old doesn’t mean I’m useless.”
There is typically talk of a ‘second coming’ but much less, if at all, of a ‘third coming’ but that’s what Perrett’s third album The Cleansing epitomises – set for release on November 1st via Domino. Following the second coming of its two predecessors – both unexpected given his 2017 solo debut How The West Was Won was Perrett’s first album in almost 30 years whilst his pattern of vanishing from sight was broken by 2019’s follow-up Humanworld – The Cleansing doesn’t only match his best work but expands it: an ambitious double album comprising 20 songs. Lead single and opening track “I Wanna Go With Dignity” is instant, indefatigable proof: a tight three minutes and 25 seconds laced with Perrett’s deadpan wit and alarming honesty. A new era, then, with a new energy, and a new approach.
Alongside his trusted team of sons Jamie (guitar / production) and Peter Jr (bass) plus members of his live band, Perrett is assisted by a roster of starry guests including Johnny Marr, Bobby Gillespie, Fontaines D.C.’s Carlos O’Connell and Dream Wife guitarist Alice Go. Perrett’s uniquely narcotic and alluring melodies, gorgeous South London drawl and ravishing rock dynamic now allied to a wider span of musical arrangements and lyrical concerns – touching on themes of art, addiction, ageing, social media and witch trials amongst others. “I know some of the subject matter is death, suicide and depression,” Perrett notes, “but I feel there is an uplifting atmosphere to the album, because I’m obviously enjoying recognising what is going on around me.”
Watch the video for “I Wanna Go With Dignity” here.
Stream “I Wanna Go With Dignity” here.
“I Wanna Go With Dignity” is dedicated to the late Fiona H Stevenson (AKA Fay Wolftree), and its lyric was part-inspired by the late David Cavanagh, both of whom interviewed Perrett. One of the eight tracks on the album that feature Bobby Gillespie and Carlos O’Connell, Gillespie also appears in the video for “I Wanna Go With Dignity” directed by Douglas Hart. Hart also appears on the album’s title track marking the first time that Gillespie (backing vocals) and Hart (synths / drum programming) have appeared on the same track since The Jesus & Mary Chain days.