Elton John and Brandi Carlile have shared the most recent single from their upcoming album, an LGBTQ+ anthem known as ‘Swing For The Fences’. Test it out beneath.
Shared in the present day (March 5), the brand new monitor marks the most recent preview of the duo’s forthcoming collaborative album ‘Who Believes In Angels?’. The file was introduced final month, together with the title monitor because the lead single.
Now, the 2 have shared one other perception into what to anticipate from the album, the joyous and self-assuring monitor ‘Swing For The Fences’. Alongside capturing the identical rock n’ roll appeal that first put each Carlile and Sir Elton on the map, it additionally carries a message of empowerment for the LGBTQIA group.
“Swing For The Fences’ was just a little gem I took into the studio with me: I’m a homosexual lady, Elton’s a homosexual man and we each have households, and our desires have come true,” Carlile defined. “I used to be considering, wouldn’t it’s cool to jot down an anthem for younger homosexual children on the market that calls them into an even bigger, extra elegant, extra fabulous life. Similar to ‘go, go! Don’t let something maintain you again!’”
Sir Elton continued: “After we recorded ‘Swing For The Fences’, it was the second that crystallised the place the album was going. It was arduous to get to that time, however we knew we needed to rise to the event and all of us simply felt this large sense of pleasure and euphoria. After our preliminary difficulties, all of the uncertainties began to dissipate when this track got here collectively. It simply sounded nice.”
Test it out beneath.
‘Who Believes In Angels?’ is about for launch on April 4 by way of Island EMI and contains collaborations from Andrew Watt and John’s longtime songwriting companion Bernie Taupin.
It comes as a follow-up to the legendary artist’s 2021 album, ‘The Lockdown Periods’, and in addition contains the 2025 Oscar-nominated track ‘By no means Too Late’, which was created particularly for the Disney+ documentary of the identical title. Go to right here to pre-order it.
Within the LP, the 2 are backed by iconic musicians together with Purple Scorching Chili Peppers‘ drummer Chad Smith, Pino Palladino (9 Inch Nails, Gary Numan and David Gilmour) and Josh Klinghoffer (Pearl Jam, Beck).
The writing and recording classes occurred over three weeks in October 2023, and noticed Sir Elton enable cameras in for the primary time to doc the whole artistic course of. That has been compiled into a brand new ‘Making Of’ movie, for which a trailer is obtainable to observe beneath.
To have a good time the upcoming file, Carlile and Sir Elton have introduced a particular, one-off present at The London Palladium. It’s scheduled for March 26 and entry to tickets will likely be obtainable solely to those that pre-order the album.
In different information, it was revealed final month that the ‘Rocketman’ hitmaker smashed his iPad and advised Carlile to “fuck off” through the making of their album, and he has since gone on to share reward for Kneecap – describing them as “extraordinary”.
