READY FOR BATTLE BY MARCUS GAD

After three years of waiting, Marcus Gad & Tribe finally deliver their new creation, Ready For Battle. It’s the fourth studio album by the New Caledonian artist working together with his band Tribe, which began backing Gad in 2017 for the album Chanting. The record releases digitally in North America on February 10, with the physical versions (double LP vinyl and CD) coming out on March 3 within the territory. Check it out here. 

Ready For Battle revisits recurring themes that Marcus Gad has wrestled with in his music throughout his young career: cultivating a spiritual conscience in yourself; deep love and praise for nature; pushing for a collective awakening to change our current way of living before it destroys us and our world. These topics have always been important but have become even more essential to champion in our post-pandemic existence. With this album, Marcus Gad shares a message that stays true to his guiding principle: two feet planted on the ground, head in the cosmos.

Although the album was written and recorded between 2018 and 2019, in a world not yet subject to the drastic rules put in place to survive the global health crisis, Marcus was already practicing what he preached, striving to live consciously, and urging others to follow his lead. At that time, the songs Gad wrote for this album in many ways foretold what awaited us, but they feel just as resonant now: an invitation to take advantage of our fundamental rights, which for many seemed to be taken for granted. Ready For Battle was prescient: we were going to have to prepare to defend our rights, our humanity, and our resources. This has only become clearer upon release of the album a few years later.