More than two decades after their debut, Spearmint remain a constant presence, with Chase Me marking their eleventh album and the 65th release on their own hitBACK label. Reuniting with producer Rhodri Marsden, the long-running line-up of Shirley Lee, Simon Calnan, James Parsons and Ronan Larvor deliver a record built around a loosely cinematic narrative.
Chase Me traces a path through success, disillusionment, disconnection, peril and renewal. Anchored by a series of city chases and framed by out-of-body experiences, the album gradually opens into a set of uplifting love songs. Equal parts thriller, allegory and melodic indie pop record, it combines storytelling ambition with the band's enduring gift for memorable songs.
As Shirley Lee puts it: “The story would make a good movie... but we don’t know how to do that, so we did this.”