The Coronas build up the excitement ahead of their new album with the release of the video for their duet with Gabrielle Aplin. This as the internationally-popular band gets ready for a major album release in July.
The new video and single Lost in The Thick of It is a collaboration, written and performed by The Coronas and English singer-songwriter Gabrielle Aplin. It features a melancholic piano hook, with Aplin and the band’s lead singer Danny O’Reilly’s vocals complementing each other beautifully.
Gabrielle reached a mainstream audience with her cover of Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s The Power of Love, used as the soundtrack to the John Lewis Christmas advertisement. Since then she has released three studio albums, most recently Dear Happy in January 2020.
Singer Danny gives us the story of how the song came to be:
“Gabrielle and her partner, Alfie (Hudson-Taylor) invited me to their home in Brighton last year for a weekend of hanging out. We said we might try to write a little but it was more like a mini-holiday in my mind. We wrote a song together on which Gabrielle sang lead vocals that became ‘Lost in The Thick of It’ and I loved the demo so much I suggested adding my vocal in a lower octave and making it a duet.”
A few months later the duet was recorded in the historic Eastcote Studios in London. It will be the fourth single released from The Coronas’ new album True Love Waits, set for release on 31st July, their sixth studio album and the follow-up to 2017’s No.1 hit Trust The Wire.
And what about the band’s unfortunate name, given the pandemic currently stalking the world?
“The first thing we did was tweet Corona the beer, asking them what their plan was,” states Danny.
“When we chat to our mates in bands who have postponed gigs and tours, I just remind them it could be worse, you could share a name with the virus!”
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