Elton John and Brandi Carlile announce joint album Who Believes in Angels?, share title observe

Elton John and Brandi Carlile have teamed up for a brand new album titled Who Believes in Angels? Forward of its launch on April 4th through Interscope Information, you’ll be able to hear the title observe under.

Who Believes in Angels? was co-written by John and Carlile with the help of the previous’s longtime collaborator Bernie Taupin in addition to Andrew Watt, who produced the album. Began from scratch in October 2023 at Los Angeles’ Sundown Sound Studios, the mission was written and recorded in 20 days. It options contributions from Purple Sizzling Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith, Pearl Jam’s Josh Klinghoffer, and bassist Pino Palladino (9 Inch Nails, Gary Numan, David Gilmour).

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“This file was one of many hardest I’ve ever made, but it surely was additionally one of many best musical experiences of my life,” John mentioned. “It has given me a spot the place I do know I can transfer ahead. Who Believes In Angels? appears like going into one other period and I’m pushing the door open to come back into the longer term. I’ve every part I’ve achieved behind me and it’s been sensible, superb. However that is the brand new begin for me. So far as I’m involved, that is the beginning of my profession Mark 2.”

Carlile added, “I’m nonetheless reeling from the truth that I bought to do it. I believe all ships rise with Elton John’s requirements for songwriting, and it was an extremely difficult and galvanizing setting to work in, everyone throwing in concepts, everyone listening to everyone else’s concepts. It felt like a household. The world is a wild place to reside in proper now. It’s laborious to seek out peace and triumph. It’s a radical act to hunt out joyful and euphoric happenings. And that’s what this album represents to me.”

The title observe options lyrics penned by Carlile primarily based on an idea by John, with their vocals hovering in concord as they sing: “What do you say we set the pleasantries apart?/ Even the diamonds appear like rocks to the untrained eye/ What does it value to purchase again your soul whenever you die?/ What are the angels going to do with you and I?”

Moreover “Who Believes in Angels?,” the album options “By no means Too Late,” the Oscar-nominated tune from John’s Disney+ documentary of the identical title. All of this comes as John is recovering from a “extreme eye an infection” which has left him with restricted imaginative and prescient.

Final October, Carlile backed Joni Mitchell throughout her first concert events in Los Angeles in 24 years, with John becoming a member of the enjoyable on evening two.

In Could, Carlile will host her annual “Mothership Weekend” forward of a summer season tour of the UK and Europe. Get tickets right here.

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