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Former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic has confirmed that he'll be appearing on the upcoming album from Modest Mouse.
Pitchfork report that the grunge icon was in conversation with Spotify when he revealed that he'd contributed bass duties to a 'pretty edgy' track.
"I did a song with Modest Mouse earlier this year for their new record," he said. "It's pretty edgy. I've got my big Gibson bass and a Rat distortion pedal busting out a... this bass riff."
The album will be Modest Mouse's first since 2009's No One's First And You're Next. The collaboration isn't the first time that the band have teamed up with a legend, after Johnny Marr joined them from 2006 - 2009 to record and tour the album We Were Dead Before This Ship Even Sank.
Watch Modest Mouse and Johnny Marr performing 'Dashboard' below
The news comes in the wake of Nirvana's seminal and final album It Utero being re-issued this week to mark its 20th anniversary. Drummer Dave Grohl made headlines when he spoke out in a plea to fans, urging them to listen to Nirvana's final album, In Utero, 'without thinking of Kurt Cobain dying'.
The former Nirvana drummer was talking to Rolling Stone magazine about the release of the 20th anniversary of the band's seminal 1993 album, In Utero. The album would become the band's last, as frontman Kurt Cobain took his own life the year after its release.
Now, Grohl has said that fans should listen to the record on its own merits, without thinking of Cobain's demise.
"The album should be listened to as it was the day it came out," he said. "That's my problem with the record. I used to like to listen to it. And I don't any more, because of that.To me, if you listen to it without thinking of Kurt dying, you might get the original intention of the record.
Grohl continued: "Like my kids. They know I was in Nirvana. They know Kurt was killed. I haven't told them that he killed himself. They're four and seven years old. So when they listen to 'In Utero', they'll have that fresh perspective – the original intention of the album, as a first-time listener. Someday they will learn what happened. And it'll change that. It did for me."
Nirvana's 20th Anniversary Edition of In Utero is out now. Read our 10/10 review of the album here.
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