The Amazons Team Up With Royal Blood For New Single My Blood
Friday, 10 January 2025
Written by Laura Johnson
Photo: Lauren Luxenberg
The Amazons have collaborated with Royal Blood for their new single.
My Blood was produced by the latter's Mike Kerr and features their drummer Ben Thatcher, combining the two band's styles for a dramatic rock song driven by distorted guitars, melodic synths and propellant drums, complete with soaring, dynamic vocals and a guitar solo. The Amazons' vocalist-guitarist Matt Thomson said:
"Why do we carry on when the chips are down and all we hear is ‘stop’? My Blood is an exploration into why, when you truly believe in something, you can push yourself past the point of pain. It’s not something you can intellectualise, it’s something you feel. With age comes more responsibilities, obstacles, reasons to quit. But in ‘My Blood’ I wanted to illustrate a force out of our control, deep inside of us, that forsakes that rational thinking.”
Discussing the collaboration, he continued: "Mike was one of the first people I spoke to about collaborating on 21st Century Fiction. He’s become somewhat of a mentor over the years. He’s one of the few in the industry I can pick up the phone to and sink away the hours. I felt this album and ‘My Blood’ was the right time to dig deeper into the shared language I feel we have. And any opportunity to work with artists we respect and admire is one we want to take."
The song is the latest preview of their new album, '21st Century Fiction', which is due for release on May 9, following the previously shared cuts Pitch Black and Living A Lie.
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