Ringdown - Lady On The Bike *Pre-Order

Release Date Friday 9th May 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.

Cinematic electro-pop duo Ringdown, featuring Danni Lee Parpan and Pulitzer and Grammy winner Caroline Shaw, release its debut album, Lady on the Bike, this spring. The album celebrates the feeling of possibility in myriad forms: the possibility of love; the possibility of creating connection and community in a world trying to pull those things apart; the possibility of making music in new ways.

Lady on the Bike is a mix of Shaw and Parpan’s pasts and presents, expressed in new ways. The duo was drawn to each other through mutual admiration of each other’s work; Shaw has won a Pulitzer Prize and several Grammy Awards for her boundary-breaking compositions and collaborated with celebrated artists such as Nas and Rosalía, and Parpan is a dynamic vocalist and folk-pop singer-songwriter who sings emotionally stirring lyrics and relishes in challenging how instruments are “supposed” to be played. Ringdown is a playground they can only access with each other, allowing them to create a style of pop music that explores the spaces between electronic and acoustic sounds and re-imagines traditional song structure.

Shaw explains, “I’ve thought for years about making a solo record that is in a more electro-pop vein, but didn’t have the courage. Danni Lee finally brought that out of me, and I wouldn’t have taken this step if it weren’t for her. Ringdown is where I experiment with so many things I’ve wanted to try. I’ve also learned that being in a band and making your own record is much harder than playing a Mozart sonata and I will absolutely die on that hill.” The songs on Lady on the Bike draw from subjects such as relationships (good and not-so-good), personal growth, political anger, and joy.

Parpan shares, “I hope this album helps people feel whatever they need to feel. That when they listen to ‘Reckoning,’ they will consider bravely sending it to someone they love. That when they listen to ‘Two-Step’, they will feel like dancing. That when they listen to ‘Run’, they will feel inspired to fight for their rights, especially over the next four years.”

Shaw adds, “There are a few songs that feel like they were written to motivate an imagined heroine of a story to change her course and vanquish her enemies—and maybe fall in love along the way. I hope someone listens and wonders what their world could look like with a little more love, gentleness, and embrace of our collective human messiness, imperfection, grit, radiance, and potential.”

The songs were collaboratively written and recorded by the duo, mostly in unconventional settings around the world—at airports, Airbnbs, the Muziekgebouw concert hall, under a bridge in Amsterdam—and often using blankets to create makeshift sound booths and a Neumann TLM 102 mic that Shaw has carried with her for years. Ringdown invited New Body Electric members Leah Vautar and Aaron K. Peterson to perform on and help produce several songs, helping the band crystallize its distinct pop sound. The album also features Sō Percussion on a new version of Ringdown’s previously released single ‘Ghost’. Ringdown appeared on Sō and Shaw’s new Grammy-winning album Rectangles and Circumstance, and the groups have been performing together in collaborative concerts since last fall. Ringdown will perform more of those concerts as well as their own headlining shows in mainland Europe and the US this spring and summer.

Tracklisting

SIDE A:

1. The Mess 

2. I Won't Go 

3. My Turn 

4. Run 

5. Old Noir 

6. Teach Me 

7. Ghost (feat. Sō Percussion) 

 SIDE B:

8. Reckoning 

9. Crazy 

10. Emotional Absentee (feat. New Body Electric) 

11. Two-Step 

12. Thirst 

13. Trigger Warning 

14. Could've Been

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