Nine Inch Nails founder Trent Reznor, Swedish pop veteran Robyn, and Stones Throw affiliate Dâm-Funk will all appear on veteran musician Todd Rundgren’s new album, White Knight. The record marks Rundgren’s first solo album since 2015’s Global, and will be released by Los Angeles imprint Cleopatra.
“It’s easy to get used to playing to your own audience, even if you are absorbing and experimenting with new ideas,” Rundgren said in a press release. “I wanted to collaborate not just for the musical possibilities, but also to play for new audiences and expose my fans to the range of artists I enjoy working with.”
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Rundgren also released the record’s emotionally torn lead single today, “That Could Have Been Me,” featuring Robyn; it is exclusively streaming on Pitchfork.
Although Rundgren is best known as a rock and pop musician, he has experimented with electronics regularly throughout his career. In 2015, he released a collaborative album with rock musician Emil Nikolaisen and Nordic disco producer Lindstrøm, who described it as “some of the weirdest stuff I’ve ever been involved with, but I think it’s some of the best material I’ve ever made.”
Renowned Ibiza-based label International Feel is named after a song from Rundgren’s fourth album, A Wizard, a True Star.
The album will be released on May 12.
White Knight tracklist:
1. Come
2. Got Your Back [ft. KK Watson with Dâm-Funk]
3. Chance for Us [ft. Daryl Hall with Bobby Strickland]
4. Fiction
5. Beginning (Of the End) [ft. John Boutte]
6. Tin Foil Hat [ft. Donald Fagen]
7. Look at Me [ft. Michael Holman]
8. Lets Do This [ft. Moe Berg]
9. Sleep [ft. Joe Walsh]
10. That Could Have Been Me [ft. Robyn]
11. Deaf Ears [ft. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross]
12. Naked & Afraid [ft. Betty LaVette]
13. Buy My T
14. Wouldn’t You Like to Know [ft. Rebop Rundgren]
15. This Is Not a Drill [ft. Joe Satriani with Prairie Prince and Kasim Sulton]
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