Michael Stipe has a brand new track out at this time, however you received’t be capable to discover it on main DSPs. The R.E.M. frontman simply launched the observe “Hum Desiderata” completely by way of Joyfully Ready, a web site for sound exhibitions which collect multi-disciplinary works that “mutually enrich one another,” per an About web page. Examine the track out for your self right here.
“Hum Desiderata” pairs a component from Stipe’s 2023 set up at ICA Milan—a recording of him reciting Max Ehrmann’s poem “Desiderata”—with an instrumental model of a still-unreleased observe, “Hum,” from his forthcoming debut solo album. The track was written and produced with Andy Lemaster; further vocals come from the Athens, Georgia-based artist Elizabeth Hatmaker.
This observe is simply the newest peek at Stipe’s new album, the title of which he has but to publicize. He introduced the mission throughout an look on The Late Present With Stephen Colbert in April, the place he carried out an unreleased track known as “The Remainder of Ever.” Stipe additionally just lately penned the theme track for the Steve Carrell-starring Apple TV sequence Rooster, “I Performed The Idiot,” with Andrew Watt.
Revisit the 2021 function Michael Stipe on the Music That Made Him.
