makes music that is as exhilarating as it is meaningful, in a rhythmically rich world wholly its own. Two years since their , the French-Cuban twin sisters return in September withAsh, featuring guests like Mala Rodriguez, Chilly Gonzales, and , whose saxophone flits around synths on "Deathless."
Ed Morris, who also directed the stunning video for "River," set Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Diaz on top of an ouroboros of life, each giving birth to each other without end — deathless. The song was written after Lisa-Kaindé was wrongfully arrested by the French police at age 16.
"I was writing Deathless as an anthem for everybody!" Lisa-Kaindé writes in a press release. "For every minority. For everybody that feels that they are nothing, that feels small, that feels not cared about and I want them to listen to our song and for three minutes feel large, powerful, deathless. I have a huge amount of respect for people who fought for, what I think, are my rights today and if we all sing together 'We are deathless,' they will be living through us into a better world."
Ash comes out Sept. 29 via .
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