Journey have set to release their new studio album “Freedom” on July 8th, 2022, via BMG (RotW) and Frontiers Music (EU, UK, Japan). Today they present the first single “You Got the Best of Me”, which you can listen to below.
“I wanted kind of a punky rendition of ‘Any Way You Want It’”, says the group’s founding member, guitarist, songwriter, and producer Neal Schon about the single. “I usually don’t go in saying I’m going to look for something like that, but then it just came to me, like ‘Wheel in the Sky’ did years ago. It just kind of flew out of my mouth”.
While the forthcoming album was made with visions of arena and stadium stages, it started from humble beginnings. In 2020, as COVID swept the globe, Schon was stuck at home like the rest of us. “During the pandemic, there wasn’t much to do”, he says. “I spent a lot of time in my little studio at home, learning how to play keyboards and looping. Some of those ideas ended up being songs. So, it kind of came out of nowhere”.
“Freedom” will be the first album of new material to be released in eleven years, since 2011’s “Eclipse”, and in addition to longtime keyboard player and primary lyricist Jonathan Cain and vocalist Arnel Pineda, one more member was recruited for the upcoming album — the incredible bassist Randy Jackson, who had played on Journey’s album “Raised on Radio” (1986).
Pre-order & pre-save “Freedom” here.
Tracklist:
1. Together We Run
2. Don’t Give Up on Us
3. Still Believe in Love
4. You Got the Best of Me
5. Live to Love Again
6. The Way We Used to Be
7. Come Away with Me
8. After Glow
9. Let It Rain
10. Holdin On
11. All Day and All Night
12. Don’t Go
13. United We Stand
14. Life Rolls On
15. Beautiful As You Are
Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018, Journey have 25 gold and platinum albums, including the fifteen-million selling Greatest Hits collection, with total sales adding up to 80 million records around the world.
Line-up:
Neal Schon – Guitars
Jonathan Cain – Keyboards
Arnel Pineda – Lead vocals
Randy Jackson – Bass
Narada Michael Walden – Drums
Weblinks:
journeymusic.com
www.facebook.com/journey
