Bing & Ruth Announces New Album Species, Shares New Song: Listen

Bing & Ruth, the project led of New York composer David Moore, has announced a new album. Species is out July 17 via 4AD. Moore’s also shared a new video for the new song “I Had No Dream.” Watch it below.

“I suppose what interested me the most in putting this together was the concept of trance and what can happen to the listener by submitting to the wave of the thing,” Moore said of the new album in a statement. “Upon reflection, I suppose what I was moving towards was a way to feel small—a way to feel deeply humble. I had always made music in search of some sort of inner peace, but I no longer cared so much to comfort myself. I’d grown tired, it seemed, of looking inward. I wanted to look nowhere.”

David Moore headed to Point Dume, California to record the new album, which follows 2017’s No Home of the Mind. “I’d found myself in places unfamiliar enough that I could easily lose all sense of direction, size and, more than anything, all sense of time,” he said. “The music I was making became a kind of reflection of these intentional detachments—and a place to mirror that feeling of trance that had pushed them out in the first place.”

Along with the album news, Moore has revealed the newly rescheduled dates on his 2020 Bing & Ruth tour. Find the updated tour itinerary below and get tickets here. (Pitchfork earns a commission from purchases made through affiliate links on our site.)

Species:

01 Body in a Room
02 Badwater Psalm
03 I Had No Dream
04 Blood Harmony
05 Live Forever
06 The Pressure of This Water
07 Nearer

Bing & Ruth:

08-12 New York, NY – Le Poisson Rouge
08-14 Raleigh, NC – Kings Barcade
08-15 Atlanta, GA – Contemporary Art Center
08-17 Austin, TX – North Door
08-19 Dallas, TX – Sons of Hermann Hall
08-20 Tucson, AZ – Hotel Congress
08-22 Los Angeles, CA – Lodge Room
08-23 San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall
08-25 Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
08-26 Seattle, WA – Fremont Abbey
08-29 Minneapolis, MN – Cedar Cultural Center
08-30 Chicago, IL – Constellation
08-31 Detroit, MI – Marble Bar
09-01 Toronto, Ontario – Brothers Dressler
09-02 Montreal, Quebec – La Sala Rossa
09-03 Boston, MA – Great Scott
09-04 Philadelphia, PA – World Cafe Live
12-04 Lisbon, Portugal, ZDB
12-05 Guimarães, Portugal – CCVF
12-07 Brussels, Belgium – Botanique
12-08 Utrecht, Netherlands – TivoliVredenburg
12-09 Paris, France – Les Trois Baudets
12-10 London, England – Kings Place
12-11 Manchester, England – St Michael’s