Pussy Riot and Avenged Sevenfold have collaborated again on the new single Candy Dopamine, taken from their freshly-announced debut album CYKA.
The project, led by Nadya Tolokonnikova, announced the album in typically powerful style at the Venice Biennale, known as the “Olympics of the art world”, to coincide with Russia’s controversial return to the event. CYKA will be released next Friday, June 12.
Pussy Riot have also brought Avenged Sevenfold on board for the album’s lead single, with A7X returning the favour after releasing a new version of their song We Love You with them in 2023.
“This song is kind of a love and hate song to prescription and designer drug culture,” says Nadia. “It started with my dependence on anti depressants, but it’s also looking at everyone now mentalhealthmaxxing and looksmaxxing via pills and injections. It’s not a judgement, it’s just an observation and my personal experience with these things is that I have to be in a long term relationship with them for my PTSD and depression.”
Listen to it below: