Kylie Minogue Joins Snow Patrol on Anthemic New Single 'These Alarms'

Kylie Minogue may have been heavily rumoured to be cooking something up in the studio with Madonna, but she has another collaboration arriving first. The Australian songstress joins forces with Snow Patrol for the band’s new single These Alarms, an anthemic start to the British pop-rockers’ new signing with BMG.

The band’s frontman Gary Lightbody shares: ‘As a huge Kylie fan, I originally wrote “These Alarms” with her in mind. I played it to Johnny and Nathan and they loved it, and we decided to record it for our most recent album The Forest Is the Path. Upon playing the initial recording to the band, we agreed one magic ingredient was missing… Kylie. We all knew it was Kylie’s voice that was the missing piece. Nate suggested we send it to her to see if she would join us on it. So, in hope, and with many fingers and toes crossed, we sent it off. It reached Kylie and we heard back that she liked it.’

The track centres on the shadows of past relationships and the tension between maintaining a safe distance and wanting to reconnect. Bringing Kylie’s vocals into Snow Patrol’s mid-tempo, rousing sound marks an interesting new direction for her, with the track feeling both anthemic and cinematic. The Tension hitmaker sings: “Don’t give in to loneliness / When everything is such a mess / Just hold me in your arms / I don’t want the world from you / I’m just wanting something true / Far from these alarms…”

Kylie notes: ‘Hearing there was a demo called “Kylie” that had been living in the Snow Patrol archives was a complete surprise and, naturally, I was curious to hear it. Gary is such a brilliant songwriter, so to be invited into the band’s world is a total honour.’

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