Richard Ashcroft presents his second video with his latest project RPA & United Nations Of Sound for his single Born Again.

(Disclaimer: this vid is not remotely attempting to be in synch… we had to check our stereo a few times to ensure we weren’t playing another track simultaneously!)

RPA’s self titled album has a bit of a different flavour to the pensive Richard Ashcroft we’ve come to know and love… it was produced by Chicago hip-hop producer No I.D. and includes a helluva lot of hand-clapping, rousing choruses, and heady beats. Read our in-depth review here. The album is out July 16 but you can pre-order it now from JB Hi- Fi and Sanity. Tickets to see what will be an outstanding show (from all the UK reviews) are available at Frontier Touring. This is the first time we in Australia will witness one of the world’s best performers and voices belt out songs from RPA & United Nations of Sound as well as special treats from The Verve like Bitter Sweet Symphony and Sonnet!

I’m penciling in this gig as a potential #1 show for 2010!