Andy Bell has shared the first single, “i’m in love…”, off his upcoming third solo album “pinball wanderer” out February 28th via Sonic Cathedral.

TRACKLIST:

1. panic attack
2. i’m in love…
3. madder lake deep
4. apple green ufo
5. pinball wanderer
6. music concrete
7. the notes you never hear
8. space station mantra

The song features Dot Allison and Michael Rother (Neu!).

The video for the song was directed by Chris Tomsett

Andy Bell shared this about the song, which is a cover of The Passions originally titled “I’m In Love With A German Film Star”: “I went through a stage of playing the guitar part for that song at every Ride soundcheck. Erol Alkan has always maintained it’s ‘proto shoegaze’, and I agree. Dot has been a friend of mine for a long time now. Like many people of a certain age, I loved One Dove, and when I booked her to DJ at a club night in Sweden in about 2004, she levelled the place by playing “Ace Of Spades” by Motörhead at 3am and we became mates. I played on some tracks on her last album Consciousology, and this was her returning the favour.”

He also shared this about working with guitarist Michael Rother: “I met him at his show at the Barbican last February and asked him to remix the song, but instead he decided he wanted to play guitar, which took everything to a whole new level. I was leaving for a tour the next morning and I knew I had to mix the single before I left. Hearing Michael’s guitar parts in the mix was such an incredible feeling; it just fired me up to keep on recording and mixing into the night.”