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Ruby Dice Documents Love and Heartbreak On Debut Album ‘Not In Love’

Published

2 years ago

September 29, 2023

Ruby Dice is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who has been steadily gaining recognition for her electrifying, genre-defying sound that incorporates elements of soul, blues, and pop.

When the global pandemic of COVID-19 struck and traveling ceased, Ruby Dice, devoted herself entirely to her music. She was able to give writing her undivided attention attempting to express life via words and music. After a year and a half of composing, she was ready to create an album. Who better to produce Dice’s debut album, Not In Love, than Gordy Quist, who picked members of his own band (Band Of Heathens) as the backing band along with the songstress’ band members. The love story that the record opens with and ends in a breakup. The songs are about her personal life and her relationship with her guitarist, Calloway Ritch. “The storyline of this album is more about learning to love oneself through the process and how to love each other in difficult times than it is about learning to love others.”

The soulful rock n’ roll debut album from Ruby Dice is a reflection of love and heartbreak as well as the experiences and lessons that come with it over the 10 tracks. The storyline details a decade-long journey through the songstress’ life. Highlighting the ups and downs of a full-time musician. Love and chaos. Mixing catchy melodies with grooves that will make any listener want to dance. She welcomes this full-length enthusiastically as she further demonstrates her natural abilities and professional development in the music business. “This record is a journey of self-discovery through love and chaos,” she comments on the album.

TRACKLIST

Move on Cowboy

Downtown

Whiskey and Gin

Happened Again

Let’s Get Married

True Love’s Overrated

Party Purgatory

Not in Love

We’ll be Ok

Forget Your Happy Endings

ABOUT RUBY DICE

Ruby Dice is a Colorado native who currently resides in Texas and has been performing music for as long as she can remember. At the age of 22, she relocated to Texas to pursue a career in music after beginning her musical career in her family’s church band. She has accumulated musical experience over the years by playing bass in a variety of bands, developing as a songwriter, and winning the respect she merits for her musical abilities. She started performing all over the country at this time, sharing stages with artists like Brian Wilson, Dale Watson, and many others.

After the global COVID-19 pandemic hit, Ruby Dice began to concentrate on her musical career. She started writing the songs for her debut album, Not In Love, which is scheduled to be released on September 29, 2023, while working with musicians like Gordy Quist from the Band of Heathens. Writing deeply personal songs about the ups and downs of her relationship with her guitarist and former fiancé Calloway Ritch, it’s an exploration of love and heartbreak all wrapped up into one album.

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LLOREN captures feelings of hope and anticipation with retro vibes on new single

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1 day ago

June 13, 2025

Don Reed

Former ‘The Voice’ finalist and renowned TV sync music writer LLOREN releases her next single ‘Like I Need’.

On the track, LLOREN explains, “After coming out of a 12-year relationship, I realised that any love I accepted next would have to be something spectacular, the kind of romance you see on movie screens. It wasn’t that I wasn’t loved before, just not in the way I needed. When I started developing a new crush, as exciting as it was, I knew I couldn’t settle. I wanted and deserved the kind of love that sweeps you off your feet, full of passion, magic, and possibility. Nothing less. The chorus is a pretty much a road map to my heart!”.

Produced by Daniel Pashman, ‘Like I Need’ captures feelings of hope and anticipation, while keeping the retro, anthemic vibe that’s quickly becoming LLOREN’s signature. The track’s melancholic under-tones are swept away in a thick 80s production, as the chorus hits hard with its instantly engaging and relatable themes, bringing all of the feels of searching for new love.

Hit TV show The Traitors, Grey’s Anatomy, The L Word, 1923, Wish, The Company You Keep, Made In Chelsea, Love Island UK and Love Island USA are just some of the many sync credits LLOREN has amassed to date, which have steadily proved her rich, multi-faceted vocal and powerful contemporary inspired compositions to be a cut above the rest.

Tracks from LLOREN’s hugely anticipated forthcoming debut album ‘It’s Always Sunny in LA’ have already picked up airplay from BBC Radio 2’s Angela Griffin and Radio X’s John Kennedy and press acclaim from prestigious music tastemakers Louder Than War and The Line Of Best Fit, as momentum continues to build. LLOREN’s video for her track ‘Like This’ also won a Telly Award in the US, as well as also being nominated for a prestigious Leo Award in Canada.

LLOREN appeared at The Gibson Garage All Day Festival in London earlier this year and in her career to date has opened European tours for Fleurie, Johannes Oerding and Michael Patrick Kelly respectively, played the UK’s annual PRIDE celebrations in Manchester and London and toured with Mauvey, with whom she collaborated with on the track ‘Pillow’, performing it at BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend as well as the Isle Of Wight Festival 2023.