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Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee share new track, "Ghosted At Home" featuring Bobby Gillespie

13 September 2023, 14:51 | Written by Tyler Damara Kelly

"Ghosted At Home" is the second single from the upcoming collaboration album between The Cure founding member Lol Tolhurst, Siouxsie & The Banshees’ drummer Budgie and super-producer Jacknife Lee.

Featuring the unmistakable vocals of Bobby Gillespie from Primal Scream, the track comes accompanied by an eerie video directed by Julian Gabriel Bendaña, inspired by David Lynch, Hitchcock and Chris Cunningham, with the band filming themselves on ring doorbell cameras in LA and Berlin.

Commenting on the track Jacknife Lee says: “This was our attempt at soundtracking Polanski’s ‘Repulsion’ if Serge Gainsbourg and Can were among the musicians playing along with us. We got a groove and improvised over it and ended up with this. We were aiming for a sense of claustrophobia that Bobby skilfully picked up on when we sent him the track. This is another example of how in tune we were with our collaborators on the album even though we were sometimes separated from them.”

"The first sound you hear on ‘Ghosted at Home’ is also the first recording we made together in the sacred area of Yosemite, and with it, we attached all our hopes and expectations for the music we were making. It seemed appropriate that the first instrument we played in the forest for our record was also the most ancient - a drum," says Lol Tolhurst.

“In life it is rare to hear someone telling their story and for us to recognize it as our own," adds Budgie. "It is rarer still when that story relates to a complex, dangerous and psychologically damaging relationship. To induce this feeling of empathy is perhaps the gift and skill of a great lyricist and writer. Bobby Gillespie is one of those writers.”

Their forthcoming album, Los Angeles, also features Arrow de Wilde, Isaac Brock, The Edge, Lonnie Holley, Mark Bowen (IDLES), Mary Lattimore, Pam Amsterdam.

The trio's debut album, Los Angeles, is set for release on 3 November via Play It Again Sam and available to pre-order here.

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