The Cribs release new album Night Network in November and among the tracks is "I Don't Know Who I Am" which reunites the UK band with Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo, who collaborated on "Be Safe" from 2007's Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever. They've now shared the new song which is a much poppier undertaking than their dissonant original collaboration.
"'I Don't Know Who I Am' (although ultimately quite different) came together in much the same way as 'Be Safe' did back in 2006 - we had a recording of a long, improvised noise-jam which we then tried to refine into a more cohesive song structure," says The Cribs' Gary Jarman. "Due to the similarities in the writing process, it made us think of Lee again...we had initially requested that he play noise guitar over the track, because we wanted to keep it somewhat abstract and create the impression of the melodies just kind of emerging out of the static...but he went beyond the call of duty and also added some beautiful vocal harmonies too, out at the Sonic Youth studio in New Jersey."