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After collaborating with hip-hop icon The D.O.C. on January’s Rivals, Codefendants have just unleashed a new single featuring Sublime​’s Jakob Nowell.

They join forces for new punk banger Lonely Life, which Fat Mike says is his favourite from the band’s forthcoming album Lifers (which arrives in full on April 3). ​“It was one of the most beautiful collaborations between all members,” he explains. ​“This song is a fuckin’ rollercoaster ride with no seat belt or safety bars!”

“For me, these lyrics are about the alienation many of us feel in modern society, even as we’re more connected than ever through social media,” continues Julio ​‘Ceschi’ Ramos. ​“There’s a sense of entrapment in a world where we’re constantly bombarded by noise – advertisements, countless celebrities, the beautiful, the grotesque. 

“It’s a world where we’re almost forced to co-star in a performance, where even the political elite are bad actors in an exaggerated, seemingly never-ending spectacle. The louder, brighter, and more ever-present that spectacle becomes, the more our very existence is commodified – and the more we lose ourselves, and our humanity, in the process. That’s the loneliness I’m touching on here.”

“I know Fat Mike but I hadn’t met the other Codefendants guys yet,” adds Jakob. ​“I went in watching my back. I came out knowing who had it.”

Watch the video for Lonely Life below:

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