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Screenshot for the “Ready to Go Home” video.

Primal Scream Share Two New Songs: “Ready to Go Home” and “The Centre Cannot Hold”

Come Ahead Due Out November 8 on BMG

Sep 25, 2024

Primal Scream are releasing their first new album in eight years, Come Ahead, on November 8 via BMG. Now they have shared two more songs from the album, “Ready to Go Home” and “The Centre Cannot Hold.” The former was shared via a music video directed by Jim Lambie and Alex James-Aylin. Check out both songs below.

Frontman Bobby Gillespie had this to say about “Ready to Go Home” on Instagram: “After I wrote it, I sang it to my dad the night before he died. It was just me and him in the hospital. His body had given up. I think, when you get old and tired and your body just goes, ‘I’ve had enough. Time to go.’ I was trying to write about that feeling, I don’t know why—maybe I was feeling tired myself. Sometimes I do. When I wrote this song I was thinking, ‘There must be a point in your life where you think, time to go home.’”

Previously, the Scottish band shared Come Ahead’s first single, “Love Insurrection,” which was one of our Songs of the Week. Then they shared its second single, the protest song “Deep Dark Waters,” which was also one of our Songs of the Week.

Gillespie had this to say about the album in a previous press release: “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. 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.”

Gillespie added: “There is a message of hope in the record, but it’s tempered with an acceptance of the worst side of human nature.”

Come Ahead is the band’s 12th full length record and follows 2016’s Chaosmosis.

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