Kristen Stewart makes her recorded music debut with “Who Laughs Last?” a new collaboration with the L.A.-based band, Lord Huron.
Stewart drives the song with a spoken-word monologue delivered across several verses, her noir-ish tale of a long, searching, late-night drive floating over a propulsive groove. Stewart’s vocals are interrupted only when Lord Huron frontman Ben Schneider jumps in to deliver the wailing chorus, “I’m gonna leave that city far behind and get a long, long way from there/I’ve got a burning feeling deep inside of me and don’t know where to put it.”
“I’ve always loved the band and immediately sparked to the manic drift of the song and to the mood,” said Stewart, who also stars in the “Who Laughs Last?” music video, directed by Tony Wilson. “I love when a song is something you can kind of seep into and imagine. Ben is the nicest, I was so into reading his words…there’s nothing like making new friends through projects like these that just crop up. Lucky stuff.”
Schneider said he hadn’t known Stewart before reaching out to her about a collaboration, but was a big fan of her work, especially with filmmaker Olivier Assayas (like Clouds of Sils Maria and Personal Shopper). While Schneider was working on “Who Laughs Last?” he kept hearing Stewart’s voice and thought, “What the hell, I’ll reach out and see.”
He continued: “She said she was interested so we met up and hit it off talking about books, movies and music. She immediately got what I was going for and had great ideas to boot. She’s just a great person and so creative and open. She added a lot to the video concept as well. It was the kind of collaboration you dream of, honestly.”
“Who Laughs Last?” marks Lord Huron’s first new song in two years, following “Ace Up My Sleeve,” which appeared in the 2023 film, The Starling Girl. The band’s most recent album, Long Lost, arrived in 2022.
Lord Huron haven’t announced a follow-up to Long Lost yet, but they are set to spend much of this summer on a North American tour. The trek kicks off July 18 in Indianapolis, Indiana and wraps Nov. 2 at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles. Throughout the tour, they’ll receive support from Feist, Waxahatchee, Kevin Morby, Indigo De Souza, S.G. Goodman, and Lee Fields on select dates.
Tickets go on sale Jan. 31 at 10 a.m. local time, while an artist presale is set for Jan. 28 at 1 p.m. local time. Full info is available on Lord Huron’s website.
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