The Big Pink’s Robbie Furze has teamed up with Jamie T and The Kills‘ Jamie Hince for a new EP under the moniker ‘M.O.T.H.E.R.’.
The collaborative project’s debut collection arrived earlier this month, consisting of the songs ‘My Love’, ‘Real Human’, ‘Traitor’ and ‘Surrender’.
Furze leads M.O.T.H.E.R., enlisting a circle of long-time friends and collaborators for the “open, evolving” venture – which isn’t a “fixed band”.
The self-titled four-track EP “captures an initial moment of collaboration, while future instalments are set to expand and shift – with different voices, line-ups and directions still to come”, per a description.
“M.O.T.H.E.R. is a project that responds and adapts to what’s happening in the moment,” explained Furze.
“This EP came from losing my mother, and everything around it grew out of that – a band of brothers coming together. The next release will be a completely different colour and approach.”
The musician said the euphoric yet gritty lead single, ‘My Love’, “reads like a love story” and “sings like a hymn”.
“But it came from losing my mother and having my daughter at the same time, just trying to hold onto hope, because love is everything and all around,” he went on.
The accompanying black-and-white music video was directed by Madrid-based visual artist YZA Voku.
M.O.T.H.E.R.’s first EP arrives via Fullaway, and is said to showcase both “a sense of scale and immediacy” with “anthemic songs that still have heart”.
The Big Pink returned with their third studio album, ‘The Love That’s Ours’, in 2022. It marked their first full-length effort in over 10 years. T and Hince worked on that LP, too, co-writing the single ‘Love Spins On Its Axis’.
The Kills released their sixth and latest record, ‘God Games’, in 2023.
Jamie T, meanwhile, made a comeback with ‘The Theory Of Whatever’ the previous year. He recently joined forces with Fred Again.. on the track ‘Lights Burn Dimmer’, and performed with The Maccabees at their big London reunion gig last summer.
