Spiritbox vocalist Courtney LaPlante has guested on a brand new track by pop-rockers Pvris.
LaPlante seems on a newly launched re-recording of the American outfit’s 2014 observe My Home, taken from the band’s debut album White Noise. It precedes a White Noise Tenth-anniversary tour of North America and Europe that begins in March.
Pvris singer Lyndsey Gunnulfsen feedback: “It was such an honour to have Courtney featured on this re-release. I didn’t know till assembly her that White Noise was one of many inspirations to Spiritbox. After studying that and seeing the unimaginable world she’s created from that inspiration, it feels full circle now, and it was solely proper to have her be part of this re-release.
“The album first got here out at a time when girls had been nonetheless extraordinarily commoditised within the rock/different area, and the battle to be embraced and brought critically, merely as artists, was much more prevalent than it nonetheless is as we speak. 10 years later, there’s been a variety of progress, however there’s nonetheless a lot work to be completed. It feels actually therapeutic and highly effective to get to share this track with somebody who I do know has had a lot of that very same expertise and has been preventing that very same battle simply as lengthy, if not longer.
“Not solely is she an unimaginable individual and performer, she has such a definite and dialled imaginative and prescient with Spiritbox. The excessive customary of precision, inventive integrity, and imaginative and prescient, each sonically and visually, that she’s introduced into the rock/different scene with Spiritbox, I really feel has set the bar so excessive, and to have completed that as a girl in a scene nonetheless so closely occupied by males, it seems like probably the most badass energy transfer. Take notes everybody!”
The collaboration is way from the primary pop team-up LaPlante has completed. Spiritbox guested on an official rock remix of Megan Thee Stallion’s Cobra in 2023. The band and the rapper then made an authentic track collectively, TYG, final yr.
LaPlante has additionally championed different girls in rock and steel, performing onstage with Jinjer’s Tatiana Shmayluk, Poppy and Chelsea Wolfe, amongst others. In a latest interview on the Grammy Awards the place LaPlante was confused for fellow Greatest Steel Efficiency nominee Poppy, she expressed her hopes for a lady to win the prize for the primary time this yr.
Although neither Spiritbox nor Poppy received a Grammy, her dream got here true when opera singer Marina Viotti took it house, having been nominated with Gojira for the rendition of Ah! Ça Ira they carried out on the 2024 Olympic Video games opening ceremony.
Spiritbox will launch their long-awaited second album Tsunami Sea subsequent month. The band are additionally the quilt stars on the brand new difficulty of Steel Hammer, the place they discuss all concerning the new album, their star collaborations and their journey up to now. Order your copy now and get it delivered on to your door.
