LISTEN: Du Blonde enlists Future Islands frontman

Geordie artist Du Blonde (Beth Jeans Houghton to the taxman) has a new album coming this May and she has secured the vocal services of Future Islands' singer for one of its tracks.
'Mind Is On My Mind' features the unmistakable low tones of Samuel T. Herring (somewhere between a black metal growl and indie boy cry) and you can hear it below. Well worth a digital spin. Parent album Welcome Back To Milk will be with us on May.

Du Blone says of the track:
"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."