grentperez and HONNE have officially joined forces to release a brand new song, entitled “folding chairs on the moon.”
Released on September 19, 2025 (Friday), the collaboration single between the Filipino-Australian singer-songwriter and the English synthpop duo is notable for its “soulful blend of dreamy vocals and a synth-driven groove” that brings together “grentperez’s laid back charm and HONNE’s signature atmospheric sound.”
“We first reached out to grentperez back in 2022 on Instagram after discovering his music. We sent him a couple of emojis, he replied saying ‘ain’t no way boy’, and the rest is history,” reveals HONNE in a press statement on how the collaboration came to be. The duo — composed of James Hatcher and Andy Clutterbuck — noted that they had “a feeling that it would be a lot of fun to work with [grentperez] on something,” which led them to go into “[their] session in London with excitement. “Sometimes when you collaborate with someone, it all flows so easily, and ‘folding chairs on the moon’ was a song that just fell out of the 3 of us, all in one day, and we all loved it immediately,” HONNE adds. “We’re super proud of this song, so happy to be releasing it alongside our new friend, and can’t wait for everyone to hear it.”
Adding to this, grentperez reveals that it took them about a total of three hours to write the song, highlighting the song’s meaning about “a sort of escape to the stars, to depart and detach from this earth to be with someone you love…” “Safe to say we’re dreamers, HONNE and I,” says the “Room For You hitmaker” on their writing and recording process. “We ate mindblowingly good almonds from Indonesia, ordered some takeout, played some cute bitty-boopy instruments, recorded my verse and chorus and called it a day.”
Notably, grentperez teased the collaboration single earlier this year through a Billboard Philippines-exclusive interview, stating, “…I worked with HONNE recently. I really love the song that we did together. I hope that we can make it work. So we’ll see about that!”
For grentperez, “folding chairs on the moon” follows the release of the deluxe version of his debut studio album Backflips in a Restaurant, released last July 18, 2025. Meanwhile, for HONNE, this serves as the duo’s first brand new release this year and follows the live performance of their song “Lean On Me,” released as a single as part of their Highwater Session series of in-studio live recordings.
Listen to grentperez and HONNE’s “folding chairs on the moon” below: