Blonde Redhead return with new track, "Blood Spilled"

"Blood Spilled" follows Blonde Redhead's 2023 album Sit Down for Dinner and its experimental follow-up, The Shadow Of The Gues, which dropped last year. The track is described as a "meditation on death", following a significant period of grief for singer Kazu Makino.

“The last few years have been for the world and me a relentless season of loss. Devastated through this era I learned that death means the end of the body but not the soul," Makino says. I am still connected to those who are no longer part of this world and the spirits that were never part of this world. I speak to them and I hear them. They show me signs to let me know we are much more than our bodies and most of all, I feel their love."

“There are people who are so afraid of dying and decay that they go against their own interest and the law of nature," she continues. "While I know death is not the end, I’ve also come in full circle to recognize the power and magic of the body that houses the soul. This song embraces our incredible edge over those who no longer have bodies. While we are here on this earth, this is our time, our pain and our joy. We own them. I sing and scream just to hear myself do so until my soul abandons and exits the physical plane. This song is about the free will of our soul and body down to each and every cell.”