Paddy Considine’s band Riding The Low return: “It’s always been music above everything else for me”
nme.comRiding The Low. Check out the single ‘Carapace Of Glass’ below, along with details of their new album ‘The Death Of Gobshite Romeo’ and our interview with Considine below.Considine is most well-known for his frequent cinematic collaborations with the likes of This Is England’s Shane Meadows – as well as his work as a director in his own right – but his first love has always been music, as he tells NME.
Today he has announced the third album from his long-term band Riding The Low – ‘The Death Of Gobshite Romeo’. It’s a record inspired by musical touchstones including Adam Ant, Guided by Voices and The Decemberists.Many of the songs are written with stream-of-conscious narratives like their newly released single, ‘Carapace Of Glass’. “It’s about how fragile we all are really,” Considine told NME of the song’s inspiration. “I created this hard shell of defence.
It was my protection against the world, and you could put it down to me having Asperger’s. I created this obtuse shell around me that kept people at arms-length.
People thought I was prickly, but that wasn’t the case at all.”The record was made with Editors and Robert Plant collaborator, Gavin Monaghan at Wolverhampton’s Magic Garden studios. “He was the guy our band always needed to meet,” said Considine. “He saw us as a legitimate, real band.
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