Spearmint - Chase Me

Spearmint have been making great records since debut, ‘A Week Away’, in 1999 (‘Sweeping The Nation’, ‘A Trip Into Space’, ‘We’re Going Out’). Still the same line-up: Shirley Lee (singing, guitar), Simon Calnan (singing, keyboards), James Parsons (guitar) and Ronan Larvor (drums). This is their eleventh album proper and the 65th release on their own hitBACK label.

Re-united with producer, Rhodri Marsden (Scritti Politti, Cardiacs), the ‘Chase Me’ album tells a story of success, disillusionment, disconnection, peril, and resurrection. Anchored by three chases across a city at night, book-ended by two out-of-body experiences, and working towards a suite of uplifting love songs, it’s a thriller, it’s a horror, it’s an allegory. Song-writer, Shirley, explains “The story would make a good movie I think… but we don’t know how to do that, so we did this.”