The Parrots connect with Spanish rap star C. Tangana on new cut "Maldito"

"Maldito" marks The Parrots' first collaboration with C. Tangana, and follows the duo's "Cigarette Burns" single that landed in January 2019.

The new song, produced by The Horrors' Tom Furse, is accompanied by a Rogelio-directed video.

The Parrots say of their new release, "There is a burden carried with every decision taken, not everything is as golden as it may look and therefore growing and changing implies pain and a feeling of emptiness that feels irreplaceable. For this song our inspiration came from things that were the closest to us, and that’s maybe the reason we were incapable to see them. The stop in the touring life and the time we’ve had to write has made us realise the distance we had created between our home and our people. Realising this has made us feel closer than ever to our childhood references and to seek new ways to compose songs."

Of working with C. Tangana, the duo add, "For a long time, we had the idea of writing a song with C. Tangana. We played him some demos and he loved them, so we spent some days in the studio to record the song."

"Maldito" is also the first song from their long-awaited second album, which will follow 2016's Los Niños Sin Miedo. The Parrots say, "[It] makes us feel very proud of ourselves. If anyone had told us that we could ever make our dream album exactly the way we wanted, we wouldn’t have believed it. It reflects all of our inner feelings and our influences, and we made it by keeping our circles of collaborators small with people we love and trust. This is what works for us."