Hayden Thorpe performing with Wild Beasts at the London Roundhouse (Photo: Alberto Pezzali for Live4ever)
Hayden Thorpe has collaborated with Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard on a track entitled Unknown Song which was recorded during the early stages of 2020.
“The lockdown has really made it apparent how music allows us to feel a synchronicity with our fellow beings,” Thorpe says. “In the absence of touch, music is that sensual meeting point.”
“We are in the midst of a crisis but gaining that new appreciation of dancing together is a small positive that I hope to hold onto after all of this,” Goddard adds.
For Hayden Thorpe, this single comes after his debut solo album Diviner was released last year in the wake of Wild Beasts’ disbandment; one of Live4ever’s top albums of 2019, we described it as, ‘a tattoo, new birdsong and a blank sheet of paper on which a man has made fresh signs in a new language’.