Pulling no punches, London-based singer-songwriter, Roxanne de Bastion announces her bold, third studio album with a new, Tony Visconti-produced single, ‘Apocalypse Queen’. Striding fearlessly into an exhilarating, do or die era of sonic ambition, left field influences and incisive lyricism, de Bastion emits imperious, creative confidence on Here Lies Human, a new ten-track album set for release on February 12, 2027.
One of two tracks on the album recorded with, and benefiting from musical contributions from the history-making David Bowie and T-Rex producer, ‘Apocalypse Queen’ features a rollcall of major league, award-winning musical contributors. Alongside Visconti on bass and backing vocals, the recording of ‘Apocalypse Queen’ welcomes Blackstar bandleader and saxophonist, Donny McCaslin, guitarist, Gerry Leonard (David Bowie, Suzanne Vega, Rufus Wainwright), eight times Grammy Award-winning engineer, Kevin Killen (Peter Gabriel, Tori Amos, Kate Bush) and drummer, Gunnar Olsen (Bruce Springsteen, Liam Gallagher, Miley Cyrus).
A song that’s “about embracing your strength, realising your power and unleashing our potential…possibly just in time for the end of days.” ‘Apocalypse Queen’ is apt follow-up to the artist’s striking, standalone summer dystopian bop single, Simple Pleasures. On both and tracing the themes of the lazer-focused album to come, de Bastion’s position couldn’t be clearer: “If we’re going out, we’re going out loud!”
Here Lies Human:
- Here Lies Human
- Simple Pleasures
- Apocalypse Queen
- This Is How The World Ends
- Biometrics
- So Long Forever
- Vitamin Happy
- New Town
- Miracle
- Becoming
