The track, written with longtime collaborator Johnny Hostile and recorded at their 20L07 studio in France, arrives ahead of the album's release on 29th August via Fiction Records.
"'Obsession' is the first song Johnny and I wrote together for this album," Jehnny Beth explains. "The lyrics 'you heartbreaker, you' gave the title to the album but, more than that, the song gave the album its tone. It is probably one of the most detailed tracks on the record. The song obviously deals with the subject of primal obsession. It has this spiralling repetitive tension to the point of explosion, going from a whispered confession to a gnarly scream in the blink of an eye, which was fun to make – imagine Tricky and Jonathan Davis making a song with Adam Jones from Tool! In my head anyway."
OCTOBER11 Le Grand Mix, Tourcoing, France13 La Maroquinerie, Paris, France15 Helios37, Cologne, Germany17 Marche Gare, Lyon, France18 Arci Bellezza, Milan, Italy20 Bad Bonn Club, Dudigen, Switzerland21 Bogen F, Zurich, Switzerland22 Strom, Munich, Germany24 Subzero, Prague, Czech Republic26 Kantine am Berghain, Berlin, Germany28 Bitterzoet, Amsterdam, Netherlands30 Electrowerkz, London, UK31 The Camden Assembly, London, UK
