Leatherette – hear the new single ‘Hey There’ + new album ‘Ritmo Lento’ out in November

Leatherette will release their third album ‘Ritmo Lento‘ on 28th November via Bronson Recordings. 

They have shared the new single ‘Hey There’. The song pushes the band’s boundaries toward experimental minimalism, laying a fragile and intimate vocal over a solid yet languid bass riff. The whole thing is suspended in a dreamlike, elusive and immersive atmosphere, which opens into a poetic crescendo supported by elegant acoustic guitar and impertinent sax; one of the most intimate and unsettling moments on the forthcoming album.

The band explains: “Hey There,” both in intention and production, is one of the most stripped-back and direct songs we’ve ever written: we decided to lay bare fragility and intrusive thoughts, transforming them into a gesture of resistance. It’s a dive into melancholy and obsession, but also a middle finger to all of that. In its simplicity, it’s a small manifesto of the contradictions of Ritmo Lento”.

The album’s first single, ‘Lovers Drifters Foreigners‘, is a song that unpredictably blends punk viscerality and cosmic visions. If it sounds absurd, it makes perfect sense when you listen on headphones.

After an intense, captivating journey in which they established themselves as one of the most intriguing acts of the new Italian indie scene, playing festivals and touring Europe and the UK, and releasing critically acclaimed albums ‘Fiesta‘ (2022) and ‘Small Talk‘ (2024), Leatherette return with a record born from the need to slow down, switch off the autopilot, and rediscover the essence of songs without worrying about fitting them into a genre.

‘Ritmo Lento’ is a record of atmospheres that perfectly balances catchy melodies, sing-along choruses, fuzzy cavalcades, and more reflective moments. The very title of the album, Ritmo Lento (“Slow Rhythm” in Italian), speaks of this dialectic: the constant tension between frenzy and pause, neurosis and breath, the desire to accelerate and the need to stop. The vinyl is divided into two distinct sides: six impetuous and catchy tracks and six denser, more meditative ones, like an inner diary of contrasts.

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