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Spearmint - Chase Me - Ltd 1LP Black Vinyl. and an exclusive 28 page lyric book, including photos and illustrations. Released 24th July 2026.
London’s Spearmint follow-up their acclaimed 2023 record ‘This Candle Is For You’ with the ambitious new concept album ‘Chase Me’ and lead single “1986”
The New single “1986” evokes a time when the world wasn’t connected by technology, but there was still a strong connection across the globe: music. Specifically in the song, it’s folk in Newcastle and Madrid who are dancing to the same music. The vinyl version also features an exclusive track “Is It Just Nostalgia?” which sees the band time-travelling past ‘The Tube’ and ‘Soul Train‘ to Friday nights of the past. Standby for the follow-up single in July…
Spearmint have been making great records since debut ‘A Week Away’ in 1999 (‘Sweeping The Nation’, ‘A Trip Into Space’, ‘We’re Going Out’). Still the same line-up: Shirley Lee (singing, guitar), Simon Calnan (singing, keyboards), James Parsons (guitar) and Ronan Larvor (drums). This will be their eleventh album proper and the 65th release on their own hitBACK label.
Re-united with producer Rhodri Marsden (Scritti Politti, Cardiacs), the ‘Chase Me’ album tells a story of success, disillusionment, disconnection, peril, and resurrection. Anchored by three chases across a city at night, book-ended by two out-of-body experiences, and working towards a suite of uplifting love songs, it’s a thriller, it’s a horror, it’s an allegory. Song-writer Shirley explains “The story would make a good movie I think… but we don’t know how to do that, so we did this.”
Spearmint’s last album ‘This Candle Is For You’ was included by Mojo in their list of best albums of the year.
Spearmint will premiere songs from the album alongside tracks from their catalogue that haven’t been played for years, or ever in one instance, live at Colours in Hoxton, London, on Tuesday 29th September 2026.
Tracklist
Let Him Sleep
Go Outside
1986
I'm Not OK
Feels More Lonely
Ellis Kind
The Chase
Leave Something Behind
My One And Only Life
Don't Leave Me
The Second Chance / The Second Chase
The First Man On Earth
Stop Singing Baker Street
Still Falling
The Final Chase
Time To Wake Up
WIAIWYA Cat. No. WIA127LP 2026
Spearmint - Chase Me - Ltd 1LP Black Vinyl. and an exclusive 28 page lyric book, including photos and illustrations. Released 24th July 2026.
London’s Spearmint follow-up their acclaimed 2023 record ‘This Candle Is For You’ with the ambitious new concept album ‘Chase Me’ and lead single “1986”
The New single “1986” evokes a time when the world wasn’t connected by technology, but there was still a strong connection across the globe: music. Specifically in the song, it’s folk in Newcastle and Madrid who are dancing to the same music. The vinyl version also features an exclusive track “Is It Just Nostalgia?” which sees the band time-travelling past ‘The Tube’ and ‘Soul Train‘ to Friday nights of the past. Standby for the follow-up single in July…
Spearmint have been making great records since debut ‘A Week Away’ in 1999 (‘Sweeping The Nation’, ‘A Trip Into Space’, ‘We’re Going Out’). Still the same line-up: Shirley Lee (singing, guitar), Simon Calnan (singing, keyboards), James Parsons (guitar) and Ronan Larvor (drums). This will be their eleventh album proper and the 65th release on their own hitBACK label.
Re-united with producer Rhodri Marsden (Scritti Politti, Cardiacs), the ‘Chase Me’ album tells a story of success, disillusionment, disconnection, peril, and resurrection. Anchored by three chases across a city at night, book-ended by two out-of-body experiences, and working towards a suite of uplifting love songs, it’s a thriller, it’s a horror, it’s an allegory. Song-writer Shirley explains “The story would make a good movie I think… but we don’t know how to do that, so we did this.”
Spearmint’s last album ‘This Candle Is For You’ was included by Mojo in their list of best albums of the year.
Spearmint will premiere songs from the album alongside tracks from their catalogue that haven’t been played for years, or ever in one instance, live at Colours in Hoxton, London, on Tuesday 29th September 2026.
Tracklist
Let Him Sleep
Go Outside
1986
I'm Not OK
Feels More Lonely
Ellis Kind
The Chase
Leave Something Behind
My One And Only Life
Don't Leave Me
The Second Chance / The Second Chase
The First Man On Earth
Stop Singing Baker Street
Still Falling
The Final Chase
Time To Wake Up
WIAIWYA Cat. No. WIA127LP 2026