A Certain Ratio (Jez Kerr, Martin Moscrop and Donald Johnson) have shared a new track from their forthcoming Dan Carey-produced album, and announced new dates for their extensive UK tour, launching next month. It All Comes Down to This, their thirteenth studio album, will be released via Mute on April 19, 2024.

Talking about the track, Kerr explains, “The line ‘the freedom ride’ is a reference to the Freedom Riders, civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961.” Johnson goes on to say: “The working title for the song was originally Funky Hendrix. Work that one out for yourself”. A Certain Ratio, as always, find a way to segue between the political and the groove seamlessly.

The new album, due out almost exactly a year after their acclaimed release, 1982, is further evidence of the mentality that defines A Certain Ratio: one that has always set them apart from their peers, a dogged, relentless demand to evolve, reassess and reinvent with every new release. After the confident, sprawling, pan-genre strut of 1982 and a tour that celebrated 45 years of ACR performing live, this new record comes from completely out of leftfield. The record’s ten tracks present ten distinct moods, every bursting moment of it, defiantly and resiliently alive. It All Comes Down to This is the sound of the current incarnation of A Certain Ratio. It proves the purest distillation of their essential sound ever committed to tape, and the first time they have recorded as just the core trio of principle band members, multi-instrumentalists Jez Kerr, Martin Moscrop and Donald Johnson.

“We wrote the album while the world was in turmoil,” explains Moscrop. “Which it still is. If you think about climate change, corporate war, the environment, Trump in power, Johnson, the Ukraine war, Israel and Palestine, it really does all come down to this. It’s probably the most political album we’ve written.”

A CERTAIN RATIO 2024 TOUR DATES:

4/26/2024 – Huddersfield, UK – The Parish
4/26/2024 – Leeds, UK – Brudenell
4/27/2024 – Blackpool, UK – Bootleg Social
4/28/2024 – Edinburgh, UK – Summerhall
4/29/2024 – Aberdeen, UK – The Tunnels
5/1/2024 – Norwich, UK – Arts Centre
5/2/2024 – London, UK – Fabric
5/3/2024 – Bedford, UK – Esquires
5/4/2024 – Portsmouth, UK – Wedgewood Rooms
5/5/2024 – Brighton, UK – Concorde 2
5/9/2024 – Birmingham, UK – Castle & Falcon
5/10/2024 – Hull, UK – Social
5/11/2024 – Sheffield, UK – Foundry
5/12/2024 – Bristol, UK – Exchange
5/17/2024 – Manchester, UK – New Century Hall
8/2/2024 – 8/4/2024 – Kendal Calling Festival – Tim Peaks Diner

Pre-order It All Comes Down To This HERE.