Check out the brooding new single ‘Helen Keller’ from Placebo

Placebo have shared a brooding new single called ‘Helen Keller’ as they kick off their 30th anniversary tour today (September 28). READ MORE: Placebo: “David Bowie taught me how to be a better person” The new track sees the band reach back to ‘H.K. Farewell’, a hidden instrumental from the era of their self-titled 1996 debut, using its eerie keyboard melody as the foundation for an otherwise entirely new song. Recorded in London earlier this year, ‘Helen Keller’ was produced by Placebo and Adam Noble, with the latter also handling mixing. It retains the spectral atmosphere of ‘H.K. Farewell’ but pushes the idea into a heavier, more anguished rock setting. “This is a new rock song inspired by the piano melody from ‘H.K. Farewell’ and named after one of my favourite people from history,” Brian Molko said of the track. Keller was the American author, disability rights advocate and political activist who became deafblind as a young child and went on to become an internationally renowned writer and campaigner. Listen to ‘Helen Keller’ here: The single continues Placebo’s celebrations around the 30th anniversary of their debut. In June, they released ‘Placebo RE’, for which Molko and Ste...