The Phoenix Foundation detail first LP in five years with Nadia Reid collaboration "Hounds of Hell"

"Hounds of Hell" is the second track to be shared from Friend Ship, landing after last month's Hollie Fullbrook collaboration "Tranquility".

The new track sees the New Zealand group unite with Nadia Reid, marking the first collaboration between the New Zealand natives. It's also Reid's first collaboration since releasing her Out Of My Province album in March.

Reid says of the collaboration, "I was thrilled to be asked by Sam to come and sing on a song. The Phoenix Foundation have been heroes of mine since the moment I heard Buffalo. Usually, I tend to avoid doing these sorts of collaboration things. Mostly because I never feel that I'm much good at it and tend to get quite nervous. This experience was far from that and little did we know how poignant this song would become in 2020. After events that have at times, felt truly apocalyptic."

Friend Ship will be The Phoenix Foundation's first LP since 2015's Give Up Your Dreams.

As well as featuring collaborations with Nadia Reid and Tiny Ruins' Hollie Fullbrook, Friend Ship will include contributions from Dave Dobbyn, Anita Clark and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.

The band's Samuel Flynn Scott says of the album title, "The title refers to friendships not being these passive social interactions but ever evolving living vessels which carry us through life. After the mosque attacks in Christchurch this was something I was thinking about a lot, that sense that in order to move forward as humans we actually need to actively support each other."

He adds, "These themes of modern anxiety started to emerge in my songs. The album is sort of a post-apocalyptic love letter from the future to the present. Looking back into the past for that sense of human connection we have lost in our screen-based existence."

Tracklist:

1. Guru
2. Miserable Meal (feat. The NZSO)
3. Hounds of Hell (feat. Nadia Reid)
4. Decision Dollars (feat. Hollie Fullbrook)
5. Transit Of Venus (feat. The NZSO)
6. Tranquility (feat. Hollie Fullbrook)
7. Landline
8. Former Glory (feat. Anita Clark)
9. My Kitchen Rules
10. Trem Sketch