Stu Brooks — Dub Trio co-founder and Grammy-nominated bassist — is gearing up to drop his star-studded debut solo album, 40HZ. Today (June 15th), he offered up its latest single, "They'll Just Love You," which features legendary composer Danny Elfman and genre-bending singer Poppy in a haunting duet.
The seething industrial song arrived accompanied by a horror-steeped music video, directed and produced by Dark Details Films. Watch and listen above.
"Something about Danny and I just clicked when we first met, musically and personally," Brooks commented. "Now that it's been a few years of collaborating both live and on his albums Big Mess and Bigger Messier, it feels full circle to have this new song together. Since this is his first feature ever on a record, it's an honour to collaborate with him on this.
He added: "When creating this song, I applied the same M.O. as I did with Bigger Messier, which is a collection of carefully curated collaborations. Poppy is such an incredible and unique artist that I knew she would be a perfect fit to duet with Danny. She went beyond my expectations. It was so fun to get in a room with her and composer Simon Wilcox and Matt Cronk, who are incredible artists in their own right."
Danny Elfman weighed in, too. "I am so proud of Stu. He's really upped his game," he said. "I was happy to contribute my voice for 'They'll Just Love You'.' It's such a great new sonic arena for Stu to play in and obviously he's flourishing there."
40HZ is due out September 22nd.
