The Waterboys have enlisted Fiona Apple to contribute her distinctive, gritty vocals and sweeping piano to their new tune, “Letter from an Unknown Girlfriend.” Stream it under.
The monitor is taken from their upcoming album, Life, Demise & Dennis Hopper, and is written from the attitude of a girl calling out her former abuser. “I used to say/ No man would ever strike me,” Apple sings. “And no man ever did/ ‘Til I met you.”
Because the album’s liner notes level out, “‘Letter from an Unknown Girlfriend’ could possibly be addressed to a controlling, abusive accomplice in any decade, any century.”
This isn’t Apple’s first connection to The Waterboys. In 2019, she coated their 1985 tune “The Whole of the Moon” for the finale of Showtime’s acclaimed sequence The Affair.
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Life, Demise & Dennis Hopper (pre-order here) is ready for launch on April 4th by way of Solar Data. “The arc of [Hopper’s] life was the story of our occasions,” Waterboys chief Mike Scott stated in a earlier assertion in regards to the file. “He was on the huge bang of youth tradition in Insurgent With no Trigger with James Dean; and the beginnings of Pop Artwork with the younger Andy Warhol.” Additionally featured on the album are Bruce Springsteen, Steve Earle, and Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes.
The Waterboys will help the album with a UK tour kicking off in Might. Tickets may be bought here.
