Ringdown - Lady on the Bike (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Cinematic electro-pop duo Ringdown, featuring Danni Lee Parpan and Pulitzer and Grammy winner Caroline Shaw, will release its debut album, Lady on the Bike, May 9 on Nonesuch Records. The album celebrates the feeling of possibility in myriad forms: the possibility of love; the possibility of creating connection and community in a world trying to pull those things apart; the possibility of making music in new ways.

“We were at Big Ears Festival and about to perform our first big Ringdown show,” Parpan explains. “There’s an infectious feeling of community there, so we thought it was the perfect spot to connect with people in a special way. We handmade vinyl covers for our future album and hid them in our favorite spots around Knoxville for others to find, but after planting them, we started spiraling and wondering if no one would care, and if we had just accidentally littered in a very branded way. At that moment, a lady rode past on her bike and yelled, ‘Hey Ringdown! I just found an album cover!’ We were overjoyed. It felt like a movie. That moment of connection became an important reminder of why we make music, and now our mantra is: ‘For younger you, for younger me, for future us, and for the lady on the bike.’”

Lady on the Bike is a mix of Shaw and Parpan’s pasts and presents, expressed in new ways. The duo was drawn to each other through mutual admiration of each other’s work; Shaw has won a Pulitzer Prize and several Grammy Awards for her boundary-breaking compositions and collaborated with celebrated artists such as Nas and Rosalía, and Parpan is a dynamic vocalist and folk-pop singer-songwriter who sings emotionally stirring lyrics and relishes in challenging how instruments are “supposed” to be played. Ringdown is a playground they can only access with each other, allowing them to create a style of pop music that explores the spaces between electronic and acoustic sounds and re-imagines traditional song structure.

Shaw explains, “I’ve thought for years about making a solo record that is in a more electro-pop vein, but didn’t have the courage. Danni Lee finally brought that out of me, and I wouldn’t have taken this step if it weren’t for her. Ringdown is where I experiment with so many things I’ve wanted to try. I’ve also learned that being in a band and making your own record is much harder than playing a Mozart sonata and I will absolutely die on that hill.”

TRACKLIST

1. Ringdown - The Mess
2. Ringdown - I Won't Go
3. Ringdown - My Turn
4. Ringdown - Run
5. Ringdown - Old Noir
6. Ringdown - Teach Me
7. Ringdown - Ghost (feat. Sō Percussion)
8. Ringdown - Reckoning
9. Ringdown - Crazy
10. Ringdown - Emotional Absentee (feat. New Body Electric)
11. Ringdown - Two-Step
12. Ringdown - Thirst
13. Ringdown - Trigger Warning
14. Ringdown - Could've Been



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