The Cribs live at Leeds Arena celebrating Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever (Gary Mather / Live4ever)
The Cribs have debuted another new track from their forthcoming Night Network album, reuniting with Sonic Youth‘s Lee Ranaldo in the process.
I Don’t Know Who I Am sees the Jarman brothers resuming a collaborative partnership with Ranaldo which was last seen on 2007’s Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever, the Sonic Youth man adding guitar in his own Hoboken studio to the track which had been recorded at 606 Studios in Los Angeles.
“I Don’t Know Who I Am (although ultimately quite different) came together in much the same way as Be Safe did back in 2006 – we had a recording of a long, improvised noise-jam which we then tried to refine into a more cohesive song structure,” the band explain.
“Due to the similarities in the writing process, it made us think of Lee again…we had initially requested that he play noise guitar over the track, because we wanted to keep it somewhat abstract and create the impression of the melodies just kind of emerging out of the static…but he went beyond the call of duty and also added some beautiful vocal harmonies too, out at the Sonic Youth studio in New Jersey.”
Night Network has been given a release date of November 13th after being sat on for quite some time once sessions wrapped in the summer of 2019, a period when the Jarmans have admitted they were ‘questioning their future as a band’.
