The Pretty Reckless have shared a new single, the title track from the band's upcoming album Death By Rock And Roll. Singer Taylor Momsen said in a statement, “In a lot of ways, this new album feels like a rebirth and our first single, ‘Death by Rock and Roll,' represents that salvation that my favorite music brings me.”
Momsen told us that the song has an anthemic message: “It became this kind of battle cry of rock and roll. It kind of goes through eulogies of rock stars, it's about living your own way, going out your own way, rock and roll all the way from birth 'til death. And that's how I live my life, so that's really the message and the point of the song, is turn it up to 10 and live life your own way. Rock and roll!”
Momsen told Kerrang! in a new interview that she was deeply affected by the deaths of her musical hero Chris Cornell and The Pretty Reckless’ producer Kato Khandwala within a year of each other. She explained, “(It) took me into what I can only describe as an extraordinarily dark downward spiral. I was in a hole that I didn’t know how to get out of, or if I was going to get out of it.”
She added, “It sounds clichéd, but it was music that was the thing that brought me back to life . . . The only thing that I could turn to was music and that eventually led to me just writing how I was feeling.”
The quartet's fourth studio album will now arrive in January 2021. Death By Rock And Roll will follow up 2016's Who You Selling For, which featured the rock radio hits “Oh My God”, “Back To The River” and “Take Me Down.”
2014's sophomore outing, Going To Hell, also featured three Top 10 hits in “Heaven Knows,” “F**ked Up World” and “Follow Me Down” — the first time since 1984 that feat had been accomplished by a female-fronted group.
