Jon Hopkins announces new album ‘RITUAL’ with hypnotic title track

30 April, 2024

Jon Hopkins. Credit: Imogene Barron

Jon Hopkins has announced his new album ‘RITUAL’ and has shared the LP’s hypnotic title track.

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‘RITUAL’ serves as a follow-up to Hopkins’ 2021 album ‘Music For Psychedelic Therapy‘. The LP is set for release on August 30 via Domino and can be pre-ordered / pre-saved here. According to a press release, ‘RITUAL (evocation)’ is “defined by deep, hypnotic drums and a long build to epiphanic light.” The hypnotic title track comes with a video directed by Dave Bullivant and sees aerial rope performer Bryony Louise Fowler dance to the rhythmic and intense beats.

Speaking about the creation of ‘RITUAL’ in a press release, Hopkins said: “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.”

He continued: “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.”

Jon-Hopkins 'Ritual' album artwork. Credit: PRESS — Jon-Hopkins ‘Ritual’ album artwork. Credit: PRESS

Jon Hopkins ‘RITUAL’ tracklist is:
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’

Elsewhere, Hopkins is set to embark on a handful of live dates this summer in the UK. Visit here to purchase tickets and check out full list of dates below.