Ritual (White Lies album)

Ritual
Studio album by
White Lies
Released17 January 2011 (2011-01-17)
StudioAssault & Battery 2, London, England
Genre
Length49:39
LabelFiction
ProducerAlan Moulder, Max Dingel
White Lies chronology
To Lose My Life...
(2009) 		Ritual
(2011) 		Big TV
(2013)
Singles from Ritual
  1. "Bigger than Us"
    Released: 3 January 2011
  2. "Strangers"
    Released: 21 March 2011
  3. "Holy Ghost"
    Released: 10 June 2011
  4. "The Power & the Glory"
    Released: 25 September 2011

Ritual is the second studio album by the British Indie rock[1] band White Lies.[2] It was released on 17 January 2011 by Fiction Records. The album was produced by Alan Moulder and Max Dingel,[3] at the Assault & Battery Studios in London.[4] The art direction and design were done by Tom Hingston Studio, featuring the Hartridge twins, Alice and Jessica, on the cover. The album's lead single, "Bigger than Us", was released on 3 January 2011.[5]

A Ritual short film was released, containing three songs from the album: "Bad Love", "Holy Ghost" and "Bigger than Us".

As of January 2012, UK sales stand at 95,000 copies according to The Guardian.[6]

  1. ^ "White Lies - To Lose My Life". Clash. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
  2. ^ Doherty, Niall (7 October 2010). "White Lies 'Ritual' // First Listen". The Fly. Archived from the original on 3 June 2012. Retrieved 9 October 2010.
  3. ^ "Max Dingel". Woodpop Management. Archived from the original on 5 December 2009. Retrieved 3 November 2010.
  4. ^ "White Lies to release new album in January". NME. 1 October 2010. Retrieved 9 October 2010.
  5. ^ Izundu, Chi Chi (1 November 2010). "White Lies reveal new album details". Newsbeat. BBC Online. Retrieved 3 November 2010.
  6. ^ Lynskey, Dorian (16 January 2012). "Indie rock's slow and painful death". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 February 2019.