Slowly Slowly announce new double album ‘Race Car Blues Extended Edition’ & ‘Race Car Blues – Chapter 2’

February 1, 2021 James Weaver

SLOWLY SLOWLY have announced a new double album!

The upcoming double album features the original Race Car Blues album (which was released last year) and a brand new record titled Race Car Blues – Chapter 2. The double album will be released in later this month, via UNFD.

The 12 tracks that form Chapter 2 will complete the Race Car Blues story and come almost a year to the day since the original album’s release in February last year. Where the writing sessions that spawned the first record also spawned Chapter 2, the two albums now join to form a whopping 24-track double album feature.

Frontman Ben Stewart explains that while the tracks on Chapter 2 originally faired as B-sides to the original Race Car Blues, overtime the collection took on a life of its own. “What we first envisaged as background information that assisted in connecting the dots of Chapter 1 soon became its own entity and has actually planted a few seeds. In retrospect, some of those pieces that didn’t quite feel like they fit on the original album have served as great stepping stones to where SLOWLY SLOWLY is headed. Chapter 2 pushes the envelope a little further in every direction – heavier, more pop sensibility and a deeper dive into intimate solo songs. This is and has always been the ultimate aim for SLOWLY SLOWLY, to celebrate the music we love – anthemic heart on sleeve song-writing – but across a broad spectrum of genres. Having no creative ceiling for this project only pushed that ethos further.”

Alongside the announcement of the new double album, the band have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming release; The Level. Speaking about the new song, Stewart shares, “this song is about fighting your instincts, a head vs heart battle. It’s about not wanting to be swept up in whimsical emotion, stay grounded and be pragmatic about the situation – all while butterflies swim around in your stomach. Look out for the two hidden Springsteen lyric references in here!”

Watch the official music video for The Level here:

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming double album below:

Track List:

Race Car Blues Extended Edition

1. Creature of Habit
2. 19
3. Safety Switch (Feat. Bec Stevens)
4. You Are Bigger Than This Town
5. Michael Angelo
6. Soil
7. Suicidal Evangelist
8. Jellyfish
9. How It Feel
10. Superpowers
11. Creature of Habit Pt.2
12. Race Car Blues

Race Car Blues – Chapter 2

1. Comets & Zombies
2. The Best Bits
3. Learning Curve
4. Low
5. House On Fire
6. The Internet
7. Restless Legs
8. First Love ft. Yours Truly
9. Set The Table (The One That Got Away)
10. The Level
11. Small Talk
12. Anywhere