On their debut album ’Slo-Mo Suicide’ (Progress/MNW 2000) The Ricochets came close to catching the mercury core of the most fleeting of feelings - that of the eternal outsider suddenly sensing that he`s treading close to home. It was a ultimate rock’n’roll album with references to garagerock as well as traces of The Doors and Eric Burdon and the Animals The album made Ricochets even more favourites among music journalists and a growing following, but after a long tour promoting the album, the band split up early 2001 after a spectacular gig in Copenhagen where the audience thought the fights on stage was part of the show. That was not the case.

6 months later however, singer and songwriter Trond Andreassen and guitarist Alex Kloster Jensen felt life without the band was even harder and the urge for making new songs was too strong. They decided to reform the group. In the spring of 2002 the band was once again ready to rock. Knut Olsen, their old bass player joined, they got a new drummer in Morgan Mikkelsen (Morgan Kilronan), and a new keyboard player, Sven Poppe jr.

Ricochets joined the Gearfest festival in Oslo in June, as a ‘secret act’, to an surprised audience with tears in their eyes. Ricochets’ performance proved that the band was back stronger than ever. They later played the Øya Festival in Oslo in August,infront of 7000 people, before going to the studio to record their second album, ‘The Ghost Of Our Love’. Two days before the studio session drummer Morgan Mikkelsen announced that he would leave the band after recording the new album, and so he did. The recording session was not an pleasent affair and the band was once again on the edge of destruction. Luckely they found an genius replacment in the swedish Paul Alexander George Haglund II, who is now the current drummer. And what a drummer he his!

While their debut album, ‘Slo-Mo Suicide’, delt with failure, frustration and self-destruction, ‘The Ghost Of Our Love’ is ten songs of lost love, with sadness, gloominess and reflection. The Ricochets universe is still a dark one, but the last song on the album – ‘Guess It’s Time’ – also shows it’s not just sadness and grief, but a glimpse of hope as well. Musically they’ve this time left some of the hell-bet combustible power of their debut, to give way for a more soulful and moody desperation. And it suits them well. ‘People say it’s so difficult to make good pop songs, that the happy songs are the most difficult; I disagree completely. Happiness is easy to fake. Sad songs need real sadness, if not they sound contrived. Like if you see someone who is sad it’s always real. If you see someone happy there could be all sorts of lies behind’ Trond says.

(source: www.ricochets.net)