
Mitski and Xiu Xiu collaborate on six-and-a-half-minute track "Between The Breaths"
20 April 2018, 17:36
| Written by
Laurence Day
Xiu Xiu and Mitski have teamed up on "Between The Breaths", a new song which features in upcoming sci-fi rom-com How To Talk To Girls At Parties.
The film, by John Cameron Mitchell and based on the short story by Neil Gaiman, stars Elle Fanning and Alex Sharp. Music comes courtesy of Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart and composer Nico Muhly.
thanks but yall give me too much credit! i didn't write it, i walked in as a session singer and got a flat fee lol, john cameron mitchell + xiu xiu wrote it i think! then @ID_Recording mixed it. but thanks again! https://t.co/ah0i48tR7X
— mitski (@mitskileaks) April 20, 2018
How To Talk To Girls At Parties is out 11 May in the UK.
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