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N.E.R.D. share first track in four years, ‘Squeeze Me’

Pharrell-fronted group are soundtracking the new Spongebob film.

N.E.R.D. share first track in four years, ‘Squeeze Me’

It’s four years since shapeshifting group N.E.R.D released their last LP, 2010’s ‘Nothing’. After rumours of a return, they’re back in the shape of a kids movie-soundtracking newbie, ‘Squeeze Me’.

Topping off a ridiculously successful year, Pharrell Williams leads the first thing he, Chad Hugo and Shay Haley have put their names to for some time - earlier this year, the band played Odd Future’s Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival fest, but this is the first thing they’ve issued in recorded form.

‘Squeeze Me’ soundtracks ‘The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water’, following in the footsteps of Pharrell’s ‘Happy’, which appeared on ‘Despicable Me 2’ before becoming one of the most-played songs of 2014.

Listen to ‘Squeeze Me’ below.

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