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Nelly Furtado announces new album The Ride
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 13 December 2016
Nelly Furtado has announced that she will release her sixth studio album, ‘The Ride’, on 31 Mar next year. The record comes five years after her last, 2012’s ‘The Spirit Indestructible’.
“What happens when you have a successful album and/or career, is you go, go, go, more is more, yes yes yes and no time for no”, says Furtado of her decision to take a break between these two records. “That took its toll on me and didn’t flow with my natural rhythm of who I am”.
In an effort to break that cycle, she focussed on other things: “I was having a crazy day and I drove to my friend’s record store and I said to him, ‘This is going to sound crazy but can I work at your store?’ I started doing a lot of things I always wanted to do – like sewing, ceramic and playwriting classes”.
She goes on: “I guess I was trying to distil my life a little bit. I was living in fast forward since I was nineteen. Through unstrapping and layering down and simplifying my life, I found joy again in art. It’s okay to maybe get off the ride once in a while to reflect on everything you’ve experienced”.
Listen to the first single from the album, ‘Pipe Dreams’, here, and here’s an album trailer:
