Wild Pink release new Julien Baker duet "Hold My Hand"

"Hold My Hand" follows Wild Pink's July lead single and title-track "ILYSM", and sees them duet with Julien Baker.

"I wrote that song right after my first surgery, about lying on the operating table where a member of the surgical team held my hand right before I went under," says lead vocalist John Ross. "It sounds kind of arbitrary, and like it shouldn’t have been as impactful as it was, but I felt very comforted and wanted to capture that loving feeling in the song."

He adds, "I knew pretty quickly that I wanted it to be a duet, and I'm super grateful to Julien for joining me on it. This was one of the first songs we rehearsed together as a band in the studio and David’s piano part felt great almost immediately. There were a couple moments like that in the recording process where a song just immediately fell into place as soon as we started playing it."

ILYSM will follow Wild Pink's 2021 album A Billion Little Lights, and features contributions from J Mascis, Ryley Walker, Yasmin Williams and Samantha Crain. Ross co-produced the new album with Justin Pizzoferrato (Pixies, Body/Head, Speedy Ortiz) and Peter Silberman of The Antlers.