Bananarama have shared their latest single Running With The Night, lifted from their 12th studio album ‘Masquerade’.
The third single from the duo’s sizzling electro pop LP is co-written and produced by Ian Masterson.
It follows previous releases Masquerade and Forever Young, both of which feature on Bananarama’s highest-charting album in 38 years.
Speaking in an exclusive Retro Pop cover feature, Bananarama open up about how their approach to releasing music has changed over the past decade as they celebrate their 40th anniversary as independent artists.
“It has been such a turnaround for us – which we only really discovered in 2019 after not doing an album for 10 years,” says Keren Woodward. “You just sort of think, ‘Oh my God, you can do it yourself and have complete control,’ which is obviously something that we’ve always hankered after.”
She explains: “Most of our albums and most of our career has been mostly under our control, but there’s always stuff you have to give away to someone else because they’re the people with the money and pulling the strings.
“But, you know, for us now, it just seems to sit so well with us. We choose exactly what we do and when we do it.”
In a review of the album, Retro Pop said: “Four decades into their career, Bananarama have delivered one of their strongest albums yet and, if ‘Masquerade’ is anything to go by, they have plenty more music left in them.”
‘Masquerade’ is available now.
