Furze said of the new album: “Somehow we got here! Our record is about to be released. Thank fuck for that! Getting to this point has been one of the craziest journeys in my life. I truly thought this day would never come. I got so lost, so confused, went down so many rabbit holes, at times running completely blind, so much so that I nearly lost everything that was ever important to me, everything I ever truly loved. This record symbolises so much, it’s my flag on top of the summit. It shows that I finally understand what is truly important. This is the soundtrack of my journey to get here.”

He then added “It was frightening, but beautiful at the same time, full of fun, but hand-in-hand full of terror and sadness, the outcome is that I’m incredibly proud of this work that came out of all of it. I think these may be the best songs that I’ve ever written, they’re certainly the most honest. I would love to thank everyone who was involved in this record because without them we would have never got to this point and maybe I would have not been here at all.”

The Love That’s Ours is preceded by a new lead single “Rage”, which follows on from recent singles “No Angels” and “Love Spins On Its Axis”.

Of the single Furze said: “This was the first song I wrote with the incredible Ryn Weaver. I met Ryn out one night in LA. We locked in on each other at some stupid party and I think we truly fell in love with each other. Not in a sexual way, but in a brother-sister way. We stayed up all night chatting about music and played one another our ideas. We just got each other, it was magical.”

In the last 10 years Furze has relocated to LA from London where he DJd and connected with fellow creatives and in the interview with NME the musician discussed how Wolf Alice helped inspire him to regroup, and why “indie sleaze” is now making a comeback. The Love That’s Ours is available to pre-order now and you can view the album artwork and tracklisting below.

The Love That’s Ours tracklisting:

01. ‘How Far We’ve Come’
02. ‘No Angels’
03. ‘Love Spins On Its Axis’
04. ‘Rage’
05. ‘Outside In’
06. ‘I’m Not Away To Stay Away’
07. ‘Safe And Sound’
08. ‘Murder’
09. ‘Back To My Arms’
10. ‘Even If I Wanted To’
11. ‘Lucky One

While this isn’t the first time the band have released music since 2012, they released a single in 2015 called ‘Hightimes’ with the promise of a new album that never showed, the band have come back with a lot of conviction. In a conversation with NME, frontman Robbie Furze had this to say of the single, “’No Angels’ a development in our songwriting and our technical approach, but it does definitely have the same aesthetic as our first record,” elaborating, “That’s where I feel most comfortable in representing what The Big Pink stands for. It all made sense and this was always in my head as the first song to come back with.”

 The sound of the new track may well be very reminiscent of the band’s early material, but with a noticeable change in influence and method. When asked why this is the time to bring the band back, Furze explained how the last decade of free time had allowed him to spend all of his time DJ-ing in LA, spending time with artists like The Kills’ Jamie Hince, Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Nick Zinner, and Jamie T. The noisey style has remained, but with a slight twang of an aged indie swagger. “We did a US tour with [Wolf Alice] in 2018 and that’s when I realised that this was my calling and I had to get back on stage – this is really what I wanted to do.” Furze concludes, “I didn’t want to mess around with anything else. It was time to do The Big Pink again.”

 As happened back in 2015, there has been no confirmation of a new album, no evidence that it’s even in the pipeline, or any shows booked that could even show us some new music. But Furze seems confident. Watch this space.