Drugdealer and Weyes Blood Launch New Collaborative Single “Actual Factor”
Single Out Now through Mexican Summer season
Might 28, 2025
Images by Ashley Osborn
Drugdealer and Weyes Blood have shared the brand new collaborative single, “Actual Factor,” together with a video directed by James Manson. The track is out now through Mexican Summer season. Watch it beneath.
Drugdealer (Michael Collins) and Weyes Blood (Natalie Mering) reunite for his or her third track collectively, following the hits “Honey” (from Collins’ 2019 album Uncooked Honey) and “Instantly” (from his 2016 album The Finish of Comedy). The duo first met by likelihood in a studio in Oakland in 2014. “Since then, I’ve felt like she’s my musical household,” says Collins in a press launch. “I can’t actually ask for extra by way of somebody who impressed me to even get to this place in my songwriting.”
Each made their final launch in 2022, Collins with the LP Hiding in Plain Sight and Weyes Blood with the acclaimed And within the Darkness, Hearts Aglow..
Initially from the East Coast, Collins has beforehand recorded beneath the monikers Run DMT and Salvia Plath earlier than starting Drugdealer in 2016. Weyes Blood’s first solo launch was 2011’s The Exterior Room. Since then, her 2019 LP Titanic Rising and 2022’s And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow have gained international renown.
In a press launch, Collins says the track got here to be from a demo he knew was good for Weyes Blood. “Instantly I noticed that it was the right factor to point out Nat, who I had been eager to collaborate with once more for years. After that we began engaged on it through a number of journeys forwards and backwards throughout the U.S., and it simply turned one in every of my favourite issues we’ve ever finished.”
We beforehand interviewed Drugdealer for our Artist Survey collection in 2016.
Now we have lined Weyes Blood extensively earlier than, and he or she graced the quilt of Situation 71 in 2023.
We gave And within the Darkness, Hearts Aglow a rave 9/10 assessment and the album was #2 on our High 100 Albums of 2022 record. Titanic Rising was #2 on our High 100 Albums of 2019 record.
Learn our My Favourite Album Situation interview with Weyes Blood on her all-time favourite album.
Learn our twentieth Anniversary Situation cowl story interview with Weyes Blood.
Learn our interview with Weyes Blood on Entrance Row Seat to Earth (from our Better of 2016 Situation).
Additionally learn our The Finish interview with Weyes Blood about endings and demise.
