Kanye West And Bon Iver Whisper Into Cosmic Winds In New Collab With Francis And The Lights

Kanye West is back–well, sort of. He's collaborated with Bon Iver on Francis and The Lights's new song, "Take Me To The Light." It's a mystifying new world captured in a bottle, then transcribed for audio in what amounts to one of the year's most peculiar other-worldly releases. It's not quite 1980s-inspired, not exactly futuristic, maybe not even all of the way in this realm. However it's absolutely chilling, and neck hair-raising, and proof that whenever you bring with each other some of music's most eclectic and haunted minds, they break expectations almost every time.


It's theorized that the path to Heaven exists at the far end of a tunnel the same color as tree branches. You float through to a bright light where eternal salvation and peace exist on the other side. If this exists, "Take Me To The Lights" could be what plays throughout the journey. Synths are stretched around a black hole's axis of rotation and spread Ad Infinitum, with others compiled on endlessly. Imagine Chewbacca's initial theme if he were a talk show host on Tattooine. That's the closest approximation to the Andromeda galaxy-like sounds that continuously reinvent themselves like blossoming ferns. West is credited producing it as well as benny blanco, Cashmere Cat, BJ Burton, Jeff Bhasker, Caroline Shaw, and Noah Goldstein. Each person comes with each other for a mystifying tune about love that stays with you long right after it whispers to a close.


"Take Me To The Light" is the title track from Francis' forthcoming album of the same name. Kanye is supposedly releasing a new album named Jesus Is King later this month. Whichever happens, we'll just have to wait and see.


Listen to the haunting "Take Me To The Light" up above.