Paul Smith‘Du Blonde’ has today unveiled the latest track to be taken from her forthcoming LP, ‘Welcome Back to Milk’, out on the 18th May via Mute, and is the follow up to 2012’s ‘Yours Truly Cellophane Nose’.
Fans of the band-of-the-moment ‘Future Islands’ will be glad to hear that the single new single ‘Mind is on My Mind’ features the vocals of Samuel T Herring. Listen to it below.
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Du Blonde explains, “I wrote ‘Mind Is on My Mind’ on the back of a motorbike riding down the Pacific Coast Highway in LA and had to remember it all the way from Topanga to Malibu. I was interested at the time in writing songs with no repeating sections, but rather a succession of acts. A couple of months later, Sam and I took a trip out to the desert and came back to LA to make some music. I played him the track and he got in the booth and ad-libbed his lyrics over the instrumentation. He was done in like one or two takes. When I was back in London I’d become obsessed with these Middle Eastern and Greek guitar scales and I added the lead guitar in the outro as a contrast to Sam’s vocals.”
The track-listing for ‘Welcome Back to the Milk’ is as follows…
‘Black Flag’
‘Chips to Go’
‘Raw Honey’
‘After the Show’
‘If You’re Legal’
‘Hunter’
‘Hard to Please’
‘Young Entertainment’
‘Mr. Hyde’
‘Four in the Morning’
‘Mind is on My Mind’ – featuring Samuel T. Herring
‘Isn’t it Wild’
You can see ‘Du Blonde’ at one of these venues…
3rd June – Green Door Store, Brighton TICKETS
4th June – The 100 Club, London TICKETS
5th June – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds TICKETS
6th June – Louisiana, Bristol TICKETS
7th June – The Bodega, Nottingham TICKETS
9th June – Deaf Institute, Manchester TICKETS
10th June – Broadcast, Glasgow TICKETS
11th June – The Cluny, Newcastle TICKETS
24th July – Deer Shed Festival, Thirsk TICKETS
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