Karen O and Danger Mouse Release Indie Lullaby ‘Super Breath’

Karen O and Danger Mouse released the indie rock lullaby “Super Breath” Wednesday, marking their first song since their collaborative 2019 album Lux Prima. “Super Breath” delves into a rocky relationship marked by unfulfilled love. At the start of the chorus, Yeah Yeah Yeahs‘ Karen O sings, “Because you know I’m not satisfied/No, no, no, I’m not/But you keep on coming up.”

“Super Breath,” produced by Danger Mouse, drifts away from Lux Prima, a 9-track LP that conjoins Karen O’s “rough-around-the-edges heaviness” and Danger Mouse’s “star-gazing, atmospheric production” to create a “lush journey down the milky way of their rock ’n’ roll sensibilities” as Rolling Stone’s Brittany Spanos described in a 2019 review. Instead, “Super Breath” tiptoes around the red flags of a toxic relationship. The duo’s Lux Prima album will be reissued on Sept. 20 along with a separate 7″ of “Super Breath” on the A side and a previously recorded cover of Lou Reed’s “Perfect Day” on the B side.