Listen: Grimes And Blood Diamonds Collaborate On ‘Phone Sex’

Grimes and Blood Diamonds have hinted about this collaboration a couple of times on Twitter, but ‘Phone Sex’ has come pretty much out of the blue.

The Vancouver musician, whose ‘Visions’ album has recently skyrocketed in popularity, has combined with Mike Tucker for this one-off track.

Tucker had this to say about the song:
‘We wanted to do a big pop song and wrote it in my bedroom in a night. I played the track later that week at a Blood Diamonds show with Claire as the secret guest. It was ridiculous. We wore LED glasses and projected the PS2 game ‘Rez’ onto a mise-en-scène of ‘Twin Peaks’, whilst performing on a slippery stage due to the opening act (ice skaters on fake ice dancing to a David Lynch cover orchestra). Later that month, I reproduced ‘Phone Sex’ with halo drums and we re-wrote the lyrics together. When Claire came over to work on those, I didn’t have my phone on me and she slept on my complex’s porch for half an hour, I still feel bad about it. The song was mixed down in Kansas City on a board which was also used on Thriller (mostly did this for laughs).’

The song is part of a ‘Phone Sex’ EP, due out through 4AD, 16th July in the UK, 24th July for the U.S. on transparent pink vinyl.

The tracklist:
01 Phone Sex [ft. Grimes]
02 Ritual
03 Phone Sex (Unicorn Kid remix)
04 Phone Sex (Jensen Sportag remix)