Skunk Anansie, Laura Jane Grace and more feature on Du Blonde's fourth studio album, Sniff More Gritty

Detailing "TV Star and its accompanying visuals, Du Blonde explained: “It’s the story of who somebody was before and after fame, and the sadness of losing the good person they used to be. The music video has been ten years in the making. It was important to me to paint a picture of the history of the two people in the song so we used footage of actor and musician Pete Chekvala and myself shot a decade ago in Los Angeles to depict the purity and innocence of the early years, mixed with newer, more intense footage.

Although I’m acting in the early clips, I can see even now how much softer I was and how much I still believed in the magic of people. I feel like a lot of the new album swings between characters and mindsets and being able to play with the more unhinged sides of my personality both lyrically and aesthetically has been really freeing and fun.”

Having self-produced her third album, after years of working relationships with record labels and industry producers, Du Blonde found herself able to finally express herself musically in a way that her previous situation would not allow.

The freedom that came with her move to production and engineering opened up a new sonic world for Du Blonde, one that is arguably catchier, more colourful and more exciting than anything she had been allowed to bring forth previously. Aside from live drums, played by Chris McManus, Sniff More Gritty is entirely performed, engineered and produced by Du Blonde, and also features unique collaborations with Skunk Anansie’s Skin, Against Me!’s Laura Jane Grace, Maximo Park’s Paul Smith and The Futureheads’ Ross Millard.

Tracklist:

1. Perfect
2. Dollar Coffee
3. Solitary Individual (feat. Against Me!’s Laura Jane Grace)
4. TV Star
5. Out of a Million
6. ICU
7. Blame
8. Lucky
9. Yesterday
10. Next Big Thing (feat. Skunk Anansie’s Skin)
11. Radio Jesus (feat. Maximo Park’s Paul Smith & The Futureheads’ Ross Millard)
12. Metal Detector