Pendulum have launched their new single, “Napalm,” with Joey Valence & Brae.
The heavy drum & bass tune arrives at the moment because the legendary stay drum & bass outfit’s first official launch of 2024, following the discharge of the band’s four-track comeback EP, Anima, which arrived in November 2023.
Differing from the heavy steel tunes discovered on that launch, “Napalm” sees Pendulum return to the trademark fusion of rock and drum & bass that made the Australian band one of the revered style acts of this millennium—however with further punk edge by way of vocals from hip-hop duo Joey Valence & Brae, recognized for his or her mid-Nineteen Eighties-influenced rap-rock tracks like “PUNK TACTICS” and “HOOLIGANG.”
“The label just about got here to us saying, ‘Make some extra drum & bass.’ As you understand, I’ve obtained a bizarre relationship with that. We determined to go in and make it as heavy as potential, reasonably than make one thing that may match into D&B units,” Pendulum frontman Rob Swire mentioned of the monitor in an interview with NME.
Swire added that Valence & Brae’s breakout 2022 hit “PUNK TACTICS” served as a catalyst for the collaboration: “I used to be half-asleep after I heard it and simply all of the sudden wakened considering, ‘What the f*** is that this? Some classic Beastie Boys factor I’ve by no means heard earlier than?’ It f***ing blew my thoughts.”
“Once I came upon it was a current factor I used to be like, ‘That is f***ing sick. We’ve got to make use of these guys earlier than another person steals them,’” he continued.
After a UK area tour in March and a busy summer time of European pageant dates, all three of Pendulum’s founding members—Swire, Gareth McGrillen, and Paul Harding—will return to North America subsequent month for a nine-date DJ set tour, touching down in cities like Denver, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Atlanta and extra.
Take heed to Pendulum’s “Napalm” with Joey Valence & Brae beneath.
Featured picture from Pendulum.
