The Act: RIALTO

The Release: ‘NO ONE LEAVES THIS DISCOTEQUE ALIVE’

The Format: DIGITAL SINGLE

The Release Date: JANUARY 13TH 2025

The Digital Link: Listen & Pre-Order Album Here: https://linktr.ee/rialto_neonandghostsigns

The Truth: Endlessly noirish romantics RIALTO are thrilled skinny to announce their first new album in 24 years, ‘Neon & Ghost Signs’, released via fierce panda on 25.4.2025.

The album is available on all digital platforms as well as Limited Edition Indie Store Exclusive 'Transparent Green Glow In The Dark' Vinyl, 'White' Colour Vinyl, Limited Edition 'Transparent Neon Pink' Vinyl, Compact Disc and Cassette. Throw in an exclusive new T-shirt and go create your own magic Rialto bundle over here at the Rialto Official Store: https://rialto.tmstor.es

‘Neon & Ghost Signs’ was produced by Tam Johnstone and Louis Eliot and mixed by Cenzo Townsend. Rialto will play a serious of album release instores before they headline London’s Scala on 14th May - full details below.

In a feverishly sordid clubland mode, ‘Neon & Ghost Signs opens with lead-off single ‘No One Leaves This Discoteque Alive’, Eliot casting himself as “the hound of London town, where the sheets are stained with gold” in a lascivious Brel growl, out to “lose my head” and find love “in a perfect storm”. It’s a nocturnal party prowl that the album pursues with a passion.

Theirs is a reunion spurred on not so much by a longing for the past as an urgency to grab the best of life while they can. Six years ago, while holidaying in Spain, singer and song-writer Louis Eliot was rushed to hospital for extreme emergency surgery, mere hours from death. His full recovery was an epiphany. “What you might think is if you have a very close to death experience you want to start looking after yourself,” he says. “I just went chasing full speed after my youth. I was just like, fuck it, I might not be here next week, I'm just going to dive in.”

Part of Eliot’s rebirth involved leaving behind a long-term relationship to immerse himself once more in London’s late-night party scene. Part of it was inspired by the romance and anguish he found there. And part of it was realising that the tunes that were emerging from this period – songs of love and loss, hedonism and regret, set in wistful witching hours – were a call from the past.

Because Rialto were a chart-topping, double-Platinum success in SE Asia and a highly acclaimed cult concern in the UK with hit singles like ‘Untouchables’ and ‘Monday Morning 5.19’, but undoubtedly a band ahead of their aesthetic time. Following a second album, ‘Night on Earth’ in 2001, the band split and Eliot spread his wings. He became a regular collaborator with Grace Jones and Supergrass’s Danny Goffey; as a songwriter his credits included the Ivor Novello winning ‘Leave Right Now’ for Will Young; he released a 2004 solo album and “a very rural sounding record” as Louis Eliot And The Embers in 2010, and developed the 8,000 capacity Port Eliot Festival in Cornwall. Now he returns to the shadowy source, the Rialto sign dusted off once again and flickering brightly on the nocturnal rain soaked North London streets. It’s a good place to be.

Live Dates
27th April | Rough Trade, Bristol (Instore Show)
28th April | Rough Trade, Nottingham (Instore Show)
29th April | Rough Trade, Liverpool (Instore Show)
30th April | Rough Trade East, London (Instore Show)
1st May | Banquet Records, Kingston (Instore Show)
14th May | Scala, London (Headline Show)

Tickets: https://linktr.ee/rialto_neonandghostsigns