Today, David Holmes shares “Stop Apologising”, the new single from his forthcoming album Blind On A Galloping Horse, out November 10 via Heavenly Recordings. The new track follows the recently released single “Necessary Genius”, a comprehensive roll call of the great and good – those ‘dreamers, misfits, radicals, outcasts’ that we’ve lost and just a few who’ve managed to cling on in the churn of the 21st century.
“Stop Apologising” is David Holmes and Raven Violet’s 21st-century glam electro-disco anthem. It’s a glorious hymn to the power of resilience and self-belief.
David says, “‘Stop Apologising’ is a song bathed in the wonders of psychedelic therapy – an ode to the over-thinkers who waste so much time worrying about nothing rather than living their lives on their terms.”
Listen to “Stop Apologising” – BELOW:
Blind On A Galloping Horse is a 14-track interrogation of the last decade, time spent watching a decaying, fraying Britain visibly buckling in real-time while tending to his own battles with mental health. Holmes’ soundtrack to this inquiry is at times claustrophobic, often euphoric, driven by the rattle and snap of analogue drum machines, wild oscillations of droning analogue synths and the voice of Raven Violet, which beguiles and commands in a way that could part oceans.
Throughout Blind On A Galloping Horse, there are spoken word accounts from Afghan and Ukrainian refugees now welcomed as residents in Belfast, alongside a Palestinian ambulance driver and French and Irish observers of the UK’s turmoil of recent years. Their voices add to the feeling that this record is a call to action, a motivation and a head clearing, slate wiping journey. As the opening “When People Are Occupied Resistance Is Justified” song goes, “I wanna sleep on the wind, I wanna live, I don’t wanna rust / I wanna breathe, I wanna fly, not rot in the dirty dust”. Calls to action have rarely sounded so inviting.
Blind On A Galloping Horse was written, produced and arranged by David Holmes. The album features updated versions of the previously released singles Hope Is The Last Thing To Die, and It’s Over If We Run Out Of Love and a recording of an unreleased song by Holmes’ late friend Andrew Weatherall (I Laugh Myself To Sleep). British graphic designer Jimmy Turrell designed all of the album’s artwork. The cover shot was taken post-riot in 70’s Belfast by local cult street photographer Bill Kirk.
Blind On A Galloping Horse Tracklist:
1. When People Are Occupied Resistance Is Justified
2. It’s Over If We Run Out Of Love
3. Emotionally Clear
4. Hope Is The Last Thing To Die
5. You Will Know Me By The Smell Of Onions
6. Necessary Genius
7. Yeah Yeah Yeah
8. I Laugh Myself To Sleep
9. Too Muchroom
10. Agitprop
11. Stop Apologising
12. Tyranny Of The Talentless
13. Love In The Upside Down
14. Blind On A Galloping Horse
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