Jon Hopkins Announces New Album 'Ritual'

Photo: Imogene Barron

Jon Hopkins has announced a new album.

Described as a kinetic counterpart to 2021's 'Music For Psychedelic Therapy', 'Ritual' will arrive through Domino Records on August 30, and unfurls across a continuous 41-minute composition that's segmented into eight chapters. Hopkins commented:

"I have no idea what I’m doing when I’m composing. I don’t know where it’s coming from, and I don’t know where it’s going, nor does it seem to matter. I just know when it is finished. So all I can really do is feel my way to the end, then try and retrospectively analyse what might be going on, and try and figure out what its purpose is. What is clear is that this one has the structure of a Ritual. I know what that 'Ritual' is for me, but it will be something different for you. It feels important not to be prescriptive about what this 'Ritual' actually is.

"It feels like a tool, maybe even a machine for opening portals within your inner world, for unlocking things that are hidden and buried. Things that are held in place by the tension in your body. It doesn’t feel like “an album” therefore – more a process to go through, something that works on you. At the same time, it feels like it tells a story. Maybe it’s the story of a process I’m going through, and one that we are all going through. Maybe it’s also the story of creation, destruction and transcendence. Maybe it’s the story of the archetypal hero’s journey – the journey of forgetting and remembering."

Head below to hear the ominous, hypnotising first single from the record, Ritual (Evocation), which comes with a tense video directed by Dave Bullivant and featuring aerial rope performer Bryony Louise Fowler. 

A listening event will take place at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts on May 12, with another event taking place at Glastonbury's Ambient Stage in June.

This summer, Hopkins will also headline UK festivals Junction 2 and Green Man, as well as shows in Brighton and Bristol. Tickets are on sale now.

'Ritual' tracklist:

1. part i – altar
2. part ii – palace / illusion
3. part iii – transcend / lament
4. part iv – the veil
5. part v – evocation
6. part vi – solar goddess return
7. part vii – dissolution
8. part viii – nothing is lost

Jon Hopkins Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows

Thu July 25 2024 - BRIGHTON Corn Exchange Brighton
Fri July 26 2024 - BRISTOL Beacon

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