Elton John and Brandi Carlile have shared the newest single from their upcoming album, an LGBTQ+ anthem referred to as ‘Swing For The Fences’. Test it out beneath.
Shared at the moment (March 5), the brand new observe marks the newest preview of the duo’s forthcoming collaborative album ‘Who Believes In Angels?’. The file was introduced final month, together with the title observe because the lead single.
Now, the 2 have shared one other perception into what to anticipate from the album, the joyous and self-assuring observe ‘Swing For The Fences’. Alongside capturing the identical rock n’ roll attraction that first put each Carlile and Sir Elton on the map, it additionally carries a message of empowerment for the LGBTQIA group.
“Swing For The Fences’ was a little bit gem I took into the studio with me: I’m a homosexual girl, Elton’s a homosexual man and we each have households, and our desires have come true,” Carlile defined. “I used to be considering, wouldn’t it’s cool to put in writing an anthem for younger homosexual youngsters on the market that calls them into an even bigger, extra elegant, extra fabulous life. Similar to ‘go, go! Don’t let something maintain you again!’”
Sir Elton continued: “After we recorded ‘Swing For The Fences’, it was the second that crystallised the place the album was going. It was exhausting to get to that time, however we knew we needed to rise to the event and all of us simply felt this huge sense of pleasure and euphoria. After our preliminary difficulties, all of the uncertainties began to dissipate when this tune got here collectively. It simply sounded nice.”
Test it out beneath.
‘Who Believes In Angels?’ is about for launch on April 4 by way of Island EMI and contains collaborations from Andrew Watt and John’s longtime songwriting associate Bernie Taupin.
It comes as a follow-up to the legendary artist’s 2021 album, ‘The Lockdown Periods’, and likewise contains the 2025 Oscar-nominated tune ‘By no means Too Late’, which was created particularly for the Disney+ documentary of the identical identify. Go to right here to pre-order it.
Within the LP, the 2 are backed by iconic musicians together with Crimson Sizzling Chili Peppers‘ drummer Chad Smith, Pino Palladino (9 Inch Nails, Gary Numan and David Gilmour) and Josh Klinghoffer (Pearl Jam, Beck).
The writing and recording classes occurred over three weeks in October 2023, and noticed Sir Elton enable cameras in for the primary time to doc the complete inventive course of. That has been compiled into a brand new ‘Making Of’ movie, for which a trailer is accessible to look at beneath.
To have fun the upcoming file, Carlile and Sir Elton have introduced a particular, one-off present at The London Palladium. It’s scheduled for March 26 and entry to tickets shall be accessible solely to those that pre-order the album.
In different information, it was revealed final month that the ‘Rocketman’ hitmaker smashed his iPad and instructed Carlile to “fuck off” in the course of the making of their album, and he has since gone on to share reward for Kneecap – describing them as “extraordinary”.