Bill Callahan and Noah Cyrus Join Everything Is Recorded on New Song: Listen

Everything Is Recorded, the undertaking of producer and XL Recordings founder Richard Russell, has united Bill Callahan and Noah Cyrus to carry out what will be the very unlikely duet of the last decade thus far. It happened after Russell posed a query to Callahan throughout periods for a brand new Everything Is Recorded album: “Who would you most like to write a song for?” Noah Cyrus, the actor-musician sister of Miley, was the reply, and “Porcupine Tattoo” is the outcome. The recording options Callahan’s vocal demo with toplines from Cyrus recorded at Los Angeles’Chateau Marmont. Test it out beneath.

A 7″ single from XL and Drag City will follow the digital release, with “Porcupine Tattoo” backed by another Russell-Callahan collaboration, “Norm”—a tribute to the late Norm Macdonald. Russell, who previously snagged Callahan’s song “I’m New Here” for the Gil-Scott Heron covers album of the same name, has released a string of album-length compositions in the past year, named for each seasonal solstice and equinox.