Originally as a three piece, New Model Army were formed in Bradford, UK in 1980 by Justin Sullivan. With songs like “51st State” and “Vagabonds,” New Model Army
built a reputation for dealing with challenging topics in their lyrics
such as justice, the meaning of life, nature or grievances in society.
The band was led by the distinctive
voice of Justin Sullivan.
Between Dog And Wolf features the current line-up of Sullivan, Michael Dean on drums, Dean White on keyboards, Marshall Gill on guitar and new bass player, Ceri Monger.
The self-produced set was finished earlier this year.
“After
a series of purist ‘rock-band-in-a-room’ albums over the last eight
years, we felt it was time to do something a bit different,” states Sullivan.
“Sonically this is the best album we’ve ever made. The title comes from
a medieval French expression for dusk – when it’s hard to distinguish
between dog and wolf, friend or foe. That sense of contradiction
represents the band very well and there’s also something of this sense
of transformation in the album. It has been a stormy four years since
the release of the last album. With the sudden death of our manager, the
loss of our studio in a fire, subsequent theft of remaining equipment
and our old bass player Nelson’s
departure, we, in essence, lost everything. We used this to make a new
beginning and part of the change was effected with the arrival of Ceri
and the refreshing energy and musical influences he brought. We are
very excited about the new album and what the future holds for the
band.”
Ceri adds “I have loved New Model Army’s
music for many years and am chuffed to be a part of this incredible
album. I think the record is pretty unique and I look forward to
hearing what people think when they hear it.”
The album’s artwork is based around a painting by long time artistic collaborator Joolz.
Said Joolz,
”I always hear the albums being created from the first acoustic strum
onwards and it quickly became obvious that this album was going to be
different in sound from previous records. Early on Justin saw
some artwork I had designed originally for a tattoo client of mine, an
image of Herne the Hunter and the Herlathing, and the primitive tribal
paganism of the picture really symbolized to him the heavy pounding drum
rhythms and passions that are at the heart of this album.”
Track Listing
1. Horsemen
2. March In September
3. Seven Times
4. Did You Make It Safe?
5. I Need More Time
6. Pull The Sun
7. Lean Back And Fall
8. Knievel
9. Stormclouds
10. Between Dog And Wolf
11. Qasr El Nil Bridge
12. Tomorrow Came
13. Summer Moors
14. Ghosts
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