Rialto have announced their first new album in 24 years, Neon & Ghost Signs released via Fierce Panda Records on the 25th of April 2025.
The album is available to stream/download on all digital platforms and on 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. Pre-Order from the official Rialto store by 16th Jan to get access to the Scala ticket pre-sale which begins on 15th Jan ahead of general sale on 17th Jan.
The Album was produced by Tam Johnstone and Louis Eliot and mixed by Cenzo Townsend. The band will headline London’s Scala on 14th May. Sign Up to the Rialto Mailing List Here to gain access to the Scala ticket pre-sale which begins on 15th Jan ahead of general sale on 17th Jan.
In this sordid clubland mode, Neon and Ghost Signs opens with ‘No One Leaves This Discoteque Alive’ listen here https://orcd.co/rialto_discotheque
An addictive noir laden synth pop song with 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 the romance and anguish he found there. And part of it was realising that the songs 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.
Rialto were a chart-topping, double-Platinum success in SE Asia and a highly acclaimed cult concern in the UK, 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.
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)
Please see the link to the instore poster for the dates Poster Here and a link to tickets Tickets Here.
