- 2025-02-06
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MUSIC
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Elton John & Brandi Carlile Announce New Collaborative Album “Who Believes In Angels?”, Share Title Track
British singer-songwriter Elton John and American singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile have announced their upcoming collaborative album “Who Believes In Angels?” will be released on April 4, 2025.
Along with the announcement, they released the title track on February 5, 2025.
This marks their third collaboration, following Brandi Carlile's 2009 album “Give Up the Ghost” and Elton John's 2024 documentary “Elton John: Never Too Late”.
The original song “Never Too Late” of the documentary was nominated for Best Original Song at the 97th Academy Awards.
The album comprises 10 songs including “Never Too Late”, which Elton John Brandi Carlile recorded with producer Andrew Watt at Sunset Sound Studios in Los Angeles in just 20 days.
Also the album features guest players from Red Hot Chili Peppers' Chad Smith on drums, former Red Hot Chili Peppers' Josh Klinghoffer on guitar and Pino Palladino on bass.- Elton John said of the album, “This record was one of the toughest I've ever made, but it was also one of the greatest musical experiences of my life. It has given me a place where I know I can move forward. Who Believes In Angels? feels like going into another era and I'm pushing the door open to come into the future. I have everything I've done behind me, and it's been brilliant, amazing. But this is the new start for me. As far as I'm concerned, this is the start of my career Mark 2.”
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Brandi Carlile added, “I'm still reeling from the fact that I got to do it. I think all ships rise with Elton John's standards for songwriting, and it was an incredibly challenging and inspiring environment to work in, everybody throwing in ideas, everybody listening to everybody else's ideas. It felt like a family. The world is a wild place to live in right now. It's hard to find peace and triumph. It's a radical act to seek out joyful and euphoric happenings. And that is what this album represents to me.”
Photo by Peggy Sirota - source : Apple Music
