Sure, we’re additionally in completely satisfied disbelief about it. July couldn’t come sooner.
Looks as if each time these guys flip to socials it’s for one thing actually jaw-dropping. Ever since their full return as Above & Past in Mexico Metropolis final yr, the legendary band hasn’t stopped placing out nice information and, maybe most vital of all, nice music as properly. From the numerous ABGT600 IDs to the album announcement and the first three singles, all vocal tracks, followers have been handled like they’ve visited grandma. We’ve actually been spoiled.
And the enjoyable and sugary treats don’t finish there. Whereas A&B’s mother or father label Anjunadeep is holding its yearly Explorations week-off gathering in Albania, Tony, Jono and Paavo took to the official Above & Past accounts to disclose the tracklist to their upcoming artist album, Greater Than All Of Us. As soon as once more, many jaws dropped to the bottom after they learn the quantity sixteen pop up.
Above & Past’s Largest Album Tracklist Ever
2011’s Group Remedy, one of many group’s golden data together with tracks equivalent to ‘Factor Known as Love’, ‘Solar & Moon’ and ‘Solar In Your Eyes’, rocked a formidable 15 tracks. And this yr’s album is thrashing that quantity by minimal depend. 16 tracks of pure Above & Past goodness are coming to shops in virtually precisely a month.
And the content material of these tracks is Heaven-sent as properly. A good friend and I spoke about this too (Rama, I’ve talked about him up to now): there’s no recycled content material. No tracks launched a yr in the past picked again up for the album — it’s all new. It’s all new music, new treats, new fronts. And a few very, VERY thrilling partnerships that we are able to see now that we lastly have the tracklist with us. See under.
Tracklist Breakdown: The Highlights
We’ve a bunch of observations to make. Firstly, we now have vocal collaborations with the entire nice Above & Past classics singers: Richard “Beaky” Bedford, Zoë Johnston, and Justine Suissa. Sadly, we’re lacking Alex Vargas from this checklist, who we haven’t heard featured in an A&B track for some time.
Secondly, the album appears to comply with the normal A&B long-play construction they’ve been showcasing since their very first Tri-State (and one we mentioned with Tony McGuinness on our exclusive interview from 2024): Three Downtempo, Ambient songs (one on every finish plus one midway via), and tracks of assorted vitality and feeling in between.
Thirdly, we’re seeing very particular names: for the primary time ever — and it was LONG overdue —, the trio work with acclaimed Anjunabeats pillar Oliver Smith, who will probably be showing alongside 2019 collaborator Reverse The Different on ‘Right here Earlier than’. We’re additionally very excited to see Victoria Horn lastly featured as a vocalist, after contributing closely to the writing of A&B’s iconic 2015 ‘Counting Down The Days’, sung by Gemma Hayes.
And lastly, we’re additionally very excited to see Malou listed in ‘Letting Go’. Her mushy voice reached Anjuna’s ears in 2019, with the discharge of one among Ben Böhmer’s finest songs to this point, ‘Respiration’. Lately, she’s launched a number of songs of her personal, and likewise lent a voice to HUGEL’s 2024 hit, ‘Without end’. We’re completely trying ahead to listening to what the boys and she or he have provide you with.
Last Phrases
It’s only a matter of patiently ready now. Simpler stated than completed. Greater Than All Of Us comes out on July 18th, 2025. For now, you possibly can stream the three singles already lifted under, and make all of your required pre-saves and vinyl & merch purchases following this link.
*Cowl picture credit score: Amelia Troubridge
