Marilyn Manson is currently on a brief pause before hitting more spring tour dates with his band, which makes today (May 1st) a good time to drop a new collab with pop-and-folk act Fences. Their team-up is a rustic, pondering piece called “Drugs Like You.”
The new song had been teased in recent weeks, “with the band having previewed some behind the scenes footage of themselves recording the cut — which appears on their new album Now She’s Long Gone Sun Squint.
The song begins as a gentle acoustic strummer, vocalist Christopher Mansfield alluding to family, faith, addiction and shame. Manson hits the second verse with hazy memories (“Mama, why’d you take me right to the store/To buy me an ice cream when we were poor?”), ahead of Southern-choir-style accompaniment.
Fences posted the following statement about the track over Instagram:
“Addiction moves in circles. The desert is a place for rumination. The touching of the stove. Massive coyote question marks and a near pop-psych ‘mirroring’ landscape. The only answer is that it is all the same. You must still scream ‘WHY’ even if no one answers.”
You can stream “Drugs Like You” up above, while vinyl copies of Fences’ Now She’s Long Gone Sun Squint can be ordered here.
Manson’s spring headline run continues May 8th at the Armory in Minneapolis, Minnesota. By summertime, he co-headlines a tour with Rob Zombie, and will later be celebrating his Antichrist Superstar with 30th anniversary shows this fall.
You’ll find all of Manson’s upcoming dates here.