Listen to "Mind Is On My Mind" by Du Blonde x Future Island's Samuel T. Herring

The track features on Du Blonde's first album as Du Blonde - previously, she went under the name of Beth Jeans Houghton - which is monikered Welcome Back To Milk. Swanning away from the garage-y tones of lead single "Black Flag", Blonde x Herring spiral towards surf-noir as if composing the theme for a James Bond flick set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Speaking about writing the cut, Blonde said: “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 is released 18 May by Mute, on vinyl, CD, download and cassette.

Stream "Mind Is On My Mind" below, and then check out the LP's tracklist afterwards.

Tracklist:

1. Black Flag
2. Chips To Go
3. Raw Honey
4. After The Show
5. If You're Legal
6. Hunter
7. Hard To Please
8. What Is It Like
9. Mr. Hyde
10. Four In The Morning
11. Mind Is On My Mind (ft. Samuel T. Herring)
12. Isn't It Wild

June

3 - BRIGHTON GREEN DOOR STORE
4 - LONDON 100 CLUB
5 - LEEDS BRUDENELL SOCIAL CLUB
6 - BRISTOL LOUISIANA
7 - NOTTINGHAM THE BODEGA
9 - MANCHESTER DEAF INSTITUTE
10 - GLASGOW BROADCAST
11 - NEWCASTLE THE CLUNY

July

24 - THIRSK, DEER SHED FESTIVAL