By Storm by Armando Gabaldon
“And I Dance WATCH: youtu.be/ujoCsb-o4xU LISTEN: stem.ffm.to/andidance
(January 15, 2025) - Phoenix’s By Storm, the duo consisting of former trio Injury Reserve’s RiTchie and Parker Corey, announces their debut album My Ghosts Go Ghost, out January 30th via deadAir. In an open letter to fans yesterday, By Storm detailed the new album and alluded to the full-length’s lead single “And I Dance”. The new single will be released across all streaming platforms tonight at midnight Eastern and is preceded by its accompanying visual directed by Parker Corey. The new music video centers its focus on an emphatic performance of the song from RiTchie before the song’s noise and the strobes of the night before crescendo into the morning after.
RiTchie and Parker Corey first introduced By Storm as the new evolution of their decade-spanning creative partnership in 2023 with the initial offering “Double Trio”. The song simultaneously honored the legacy of their former trio Injury Reserve, which included the late third member Steppa J. Groggs, and naturally charted a new musical path forward for the pairing as a duo. Over the course of a couple one-off releases (“Zig Zag” and “In My Town”), they laid the groundwork for the exploratory nature of their sound as, "By Storm”. While the album is technically By Storm’s debut record, My Ghosts Go Ghost signifies the continuation of a creative journey for RiTchie and Parker that spanned a decade as Injury Reserve, continually learning more about themselves through the process of releasing music whether as Injury Reserve, By Storm or as solo artists. The album's sole guest feature comes from renowned rapper and lyricist billy woods.
“This past decade we built our identity and every record has been us figuring out more about the kind of band we want to be,” explains RiTchie. “That doesn’t change.”
My Ghosts Go Ghost is the manifestation of that time spent tinkering and refining not just the music itself, but their idea of what it means to close a creative chapter and open a new one. The duo returned to basics with their new musical identity solidified to craft nine resolute songs that embody this new era, colliding the sharp realities of RiTchie’s songwriting with the abstract, unpredictable minefields of Parker’s production. The album doesn’t trouble itself with the duo’s past, and instead focuses on the present and future with respect to the lessons and memories made along the way, addressing loss, new fatherhood, capitalism and the swaying balance of life experiences. Prompted by an impromptu DJ set in Stockholm that went awry in 2019 causing them to improvise, RiTchie and Parker revisited that spirit to My Ghosts Go Ghost. The duo debuted material at various stages of completion from the album across shows in Phoenix, London, LA, and New York throughout 2025, unlocking the album’s sound in real time by utilizing feedback from those audiences to take back to the editing process.
Check out By Storm’s “And I Dance” video above and see below for more info on My Ghosts Go Ghost, out January 30th via deadAir.
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