It All Comes Down to This A Certain Ratio

• 1 All Comes Down to This 02:32
• 2 Keep it Real 02:45
• 3 We All Need 05:03
• 4 Surfer Ticket 03:20
• 5 Bitten by a Lizard 04:22
• 6 God Knows 03:50
• 7 Out From Under 03:26
• 8 Estate Kings 04:16
• 9 Where You Coming From 03:34
• 10 Dorothy Says 03:24
• Total Runtime 36:32

Info for It All Comes Down to This

Neues Album. Das neue Werk, das fast genau ein Jahr nach ihrem gefeierten Album "1982" erscheint, ist einmal mehr ein Beweis für die Haltung, die die Band seit jeher ausgezeichnet hat - ein beharrliches Verlangen, sich mit jeder neuen Veröffentlichung weiterzuentwickeln und neu zu erfinden. Nach ihrem Genregrenzen einmal mehr erweiternden, letzten Album - und einer Tournee, mit der sie ihr 45-jähriges Bühnenjubiläum feierten, kommt "It All Comes Down To This" tatsächlich wie aus dem Nichts: Zehn Stücke, die zehn verschiedene Stimmungen präsentieren, jeder einzelne davon trotzig, voller Lebensfreude und essentiell im Kanon ihres Schaffens. Zugleich ist es das erste ACR-Album, das sie ohne Gäste, sprich ausschließlich in der Kernbesetzung um Jez Kerr, Martin Moscrop und Donald Johnson aufgenommen haben.

A Certain Ratio

A Certain Ratio
Formed in 1978 with a core line-up of Jez Kerr, Martin Moscrop and Donald Johnson, A Certain Ratio emerged from the hallowed grounds of the late 70s punk scene, and from that day on they’ve moved forwards with gleeful disregard for the boundaries of style and genre, their eye fixed firmly on constant progression. It’s an ethos that’s open-minded over all else, and that’s seen the band take everything from experimental electronica to vintage funk, and filter it through their own Mancunian lens.

Shortly after forming in 1978, Joy Division’s manager Rob Gretton – having seen A Certain Ratio on one of their many live shows – put them in touch with Tony Wilson, a well-known local TV personality who was then in the process of setting up a record label. A Certain Ratio were one of the first to record for the fledgling Factory Records, debuting with their 7″ single, ‘All Night Party’/’The Thin Boys’.

On December 10, 2023, A Certain Ratio contorted Manchester’s Band on the Wall venue with their deep funk grooves and scabrous post-punk stabs of guitar, the band standing astride the venue where they started their career 45 years ago. It, like them, is one of the few remaining elements of the Manchester music scene’s heyday that seems stronger now than ever.

ACR were celebrating the 45th anniversary of their time playing live together as a band, but make no mistake, this was no syrupy, nostalgia-ridden greatest hits tour. After all, earlier in the year, A Certain Ratio had released 1982, one of their career-best works. That album captured the blend of wiry funk bass, Afrobeat-flavoured drums and post-disco indie dance arrangements that placed ACR at the vanguard of the no wave, no nonsense underground music community of the early 1980s, and has kept them there ever since. And yet, in the handful of months since 1982 had been released, the band had long since moved on from it.

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