The Phoenix Foundation link with Tiny Ruins' Hollie Fullbrook for new single "Decision Dollars"

30 September 2020, 14:16 | Written by Cerys Kenneally

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The Phoenix Foundation have reunited with Tiny Ruins' Hollie Fullbrook for new song "Decision Dollars", which will feature on the band's first album in five years, Friend Ship.

"Decision Dollars" is the fourth single to be shared from Friend Ship, following previous singles "Landline", "Hounds of Hell" featuring Nadia Reid, and the second Hollie Fullbrook collaboration on the album, "Tranquility".

The band described the new single on Twitter as "the greatest power ballad about being hungover ever created".

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."

"Decision Dollars" featuring Hollie Fullbrook is out now. The Phoenix Foundation's Friend Ship album will be released 16 October via Memphis Industries, and is available to pre-order now.