Interview - Joel Stoker, The Rifles

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Across their 20-year friendship and five studio albums, Joel Stoker and Lucas Crowther have built a loyal and enduring fanbase as The Rifles.

Now, Stoker is temporarily going it alone on his new studio album The Undertow. In an exclusive chat with Live4ever, the singer-songwriter tells us all about the new album, the music industry and why fans of his main band should have no fear.

How did the solo album come about?

‘It was never my intention to do a solo album, I just had a bunch of songs around the lockdown period – I’ve always got lots of ideas floating about – but I had 5 or so songs that were fully formed, all similar in subject.

They were a bit too personal for the band, so I wrote a couple more and fell into that vein. I thought, ‘If I do a couple more there’s an album there’. It wasn’t a planned thing as such.’

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