Listen to Journey’s New Single ‘United We Stand’

Journey has launched “United We Stand,” the newest single from their upcoming album Freedom. You possibly can take heed to the music under.

The mid-tempo observe is traditional Journey, with Neal Schon’s repeating guitar melody anchoring the music and Arnel Pineda’s impassioned, hovering vocals bolstered by wealthy backing harmonies and dramatic horns as he sings, “United we stand / Divided we fall / Simply maintain on to me, lady / And collectively we will face all of it.”

“United We Stand” is the fifth music launched from Freedom, following “Do not Give Up on Us,”  “Let It Rain,” “You Received the Better of Me” and “The Means We Used to Be.” The upcoming LP, which arrives July 8, will mark Journey’s first album in over a decade and the sixteenth studio album of their illustrious profession.

Freedom was nearly the title of a distinct Journey launch. Throughout a dialog with UCR, Schon revealed the band’s late supervisor, Herbie Herbert, had pitched the title for his or her 1986 album, which was finally referred to as Raised on Radio. “He wished to name Raised on Radio, Freedom. Steve Perry didn’t need that and he fought him profusely,” Schon recalled. “So Steve ended up getting Raised on Radio. Herbie wished to stick with a one-word title.”

Greater than 30 years later, Schon and the group revisited the title and realized it had taken on new that means. “We had simply gone by this entire lawsuit with the ex-band members. We went by this entire divorce from previous attorneys, previous managers, previous accountants,” he defined. “It turned extra evident to me that the phrase ‘freedom’ meant lots of various things to me.”

“Not solely was it one thing that Herbie wished to do a very long time in the past, however [it represented] the whole lot that we simply went by,” the guitarist continued. “I felt like freedom is what I wish to learn about. That turned our new precise LLC as effectively for our enterprise. We simply figured, let’s tie all of it in. All of it is smart.”

Coincidentally, the title “United We Stand” has additionally beforehand appeared in Journey’s orbit. In 1998, the identical 12 months Perry left Journey for the second (and seemingly closing) time, the singer launched a tune additionally referred to as “United We Stand” on the soundtrack to the animated movie Quest for Camelot.