Du Blonde Teams With Future Islands’ Samuel T. Herring on "Mind Is On My Mind"

Photo by David Chavennes

Du Blonde, the Newcastle-born musician formerly known as Beth Jeans Houghton, is releasing a new album called Welcome Back to Milk on May 19 via Mute. It includes the above track “Mind Is On My Mind”, which features Future Islands frontman Samuel T. Herring.

Find the album’s artwork—which features a mostly nude Du Blonde—and tracklist below.

Houghton detailed the song’s origins:

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.

Welcome Back to Milk:

01 Black Flag
02 Chips To Go
03 Raw Honey
04 After The Show
05 If You’re Legal
06 Hunter
07 Hard To Please
08 Young Entertainment
09 Mr. Hyde
10 Four In The Morning
11 Mind Is On My Mind [ft. Samuel T. Herring]
12 Isn’t It Wild

Watch Future Islands’ full set from Pitchfork Music Festival Paris:

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