The Amazons have shared a mash-up of Chappell Roan and Radiohead in a song they’re calling ‘My Kink Is Creep’. Check it out below.
The recording was done during a very special Maida Vale session for BBC Radio 1 earlier this week, and comes in anticipation of their upcoming fourth album ‘21st Century Fiction’.
In the track, the band blend together the Chappell Roan track ‘My Kink Is Karma’ with the classic Radiohead hit ‘Creep’, and put their own spin on both.
With the mash-up, the band captured the same emotion and airiness of the former NME Cover star’s single – which came as the second track to be shared from her massive debut album ‘The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess’. They also capture the same sense of introspection and melancholy as seen in the 1992 rock classic.
They shared the full session for Radio 1 as part of BBC Sounds, and the appearance at Maida Vale also saw them deliver a performance of their Royal Blood collaborative track ‘My Blood’, as well as their hit ‘Love Is A Dog From Hell.’
Check out a clip of the Chappell Roan and Radiohead mash-up below, or listen to the full BBC Sounds episode here.
In the episode of BBC Sounds, frontman Matt Thompson opened up about how The Amazons decided to blend the pop hit and the alt-rock classic together, and said that it came from their admiration for Chappell Roan.
“It was important for us to pick the right artist, and I think Chappell was the right artist because she’s setting the tone for now,” he explained. “She’s meeting the moment in the most uncompromising way.”
“To see someone operate at such an elevated level without compromise is the gold standard of everything we do,” Thompson added. “I love the song. It does all boil down to loving the song.”
He also went on to explain what it was like to work with Royal Blood for the track ‘My Blood’ – saying that it came together out of a “mutual respect” they had for one another.
“It felt like uncharted territory, in a really exciting way… We’ve always been fans of them and to have a mutual respect front and foremost for a collaboration is so important,” he explained.
“Every decision [Mike Kerr] makes, whether I 100 per cent agree with it or not, he has the weight of astonishing and incredible music. It’s trust at the root of it.”
As aforementioned, the Reading band are preparing to release their fourth studio album ‘21st Century Fiction’ on May 9 via Nettwerk Music Group and unveiled its lead single ‘Living A Lie’ and follow-up ‘Pitch Black’ in the final months of 2024.
The Amazons’ last album was 2022’s ‘How Will I Know If Heaven Will Find Me?’, which NME awarded three stars.
“‘How Will I Know If Heaven Will Find Me’ certainly packs enough mainstream punch to keep the band on their perch as a British festival fixture, while also showing glimmers of what The Amazons are capable of,” it read. “But it’s hard not to wonder what they’d sound like if they leant further into those more diverse sounds and influences.”
During a new interview with NME, frontman Matt Thomson described The Amazon’s new material as a “turning point” for the band. “We basically found this flow state. The album that we’d been making up to that point had been so forced and so filled with second-guessing about what we should do,” he said.
“When you finally get into a flow state and the stars align, you have this really empowering feeling of, ‘I love this – I don’t give a fuck if anyone else likes it or not’. That’s why I fell in love with rock and alternative music in the first place… feeling 10 feet tall, chest out, middle finger to everyone.”
