Blondie has been busy recording the follow-up of their 2017 release ‘Pollinator.’ In this process, they also get outside help. Johnny Marr, who contributed to their song ‘My Monster’ in the previous one, was also one of the names they invited again. He penned another song, went into the studio, and recorded it, and they liked it, Marr said in a recent interview with The Line-Up With Shaun Keaveny.
“It’s a new level of wow for me because they are my lyrics,” he said while talking about the process of writing ‘My Monster’ for Blondie’s final album and how it ultimately inspired new music. “Debbie’s singing my lyrics, and then she wanted another one, because ‘My Monster’ I wrote specifically for Blondie, and then you know, it went well.”
He continued, “So then they asked me if I got any more. So I wrote another one for Blondie. But they took so long recording it, I did it myself. It was on the B side of a seven-inch single.”
“I wasn’t about to put it on an album,” Marr admitted, “just in case, but that’s called ‘Spectral Eyes.’ And it’s again, it was one that I specifically wrote for Blondie. So on a lyrical level, you know that people covering songs that I write the words to you is you know, that’s something I never imagined, really frankly.”
Johnny Marr is not the only name they’ve collaborated with. Exciting details regarding the album continue to be shared, and one of these last announcements was that the Sex Pistols’ Glen Matlock would also appear on the album. On Blondie’s April 2022 UK and US tours, Foxx was replaced by the guitarist after he hurt his back. So Blondie knows they’ll get along well with him too, as they did with Marr.
‘Pollinator’ was Blondie’s eleventh studio album and was released in the spring of 2017. They worked with many outside writers on that album, and it seems that in this one as well, they will be sharing their creative process with others. On their previous album ‘Ghosts of Download,’ the band experimented with a slightly more electronic-based sound, but in 2017, they switched back to their original sound. In this album, it is still being determined whether they will work experimentally or stay true to their sound.
