School of Seven Bells’ Benjamin Curtis passed away in December last year after a year-long battle with cancer, aged only 35.

Six months on, the final track recorded by the producer and guitarist is about to be released by the remaining members of the group. The song is a shoegazey cover of Joey Ramone’s ‘I Got Knocked Down (But I’ll Get Up)’, which, appropriately enough, is about being stuck in hospital. Curtis oversaw the recording from his bed in Memorial Sloan-Kettering in New York.

“It was a very spontaneous decision to record this track,” said School of Seven Bells singer Alejandra Deheza in a statement. “Benjamin had been talking about the song a lot, and then he just decided he was going to do it.

“We couldn’t record vocals in the hospital, so he actually FaceTimed with me and his brother while we recorded vocals in the studio. He spearheaded the whole thing on FaceTime, would even tell us which knobs to turn and listen to levels etc.

“We’d even see nurses in the background from time to time! It was really amazing. But that was Benjamin, and producing was what he did. It was therapeutic and took his mind off being really sick. This song was really important to him and I’m happy we were able to record it.”

The song will be accompanied by a video made by friends of the band Toby Halbrooks and Alan Del Rio Ortiz, who filmed it on a road trip through Joshua Tree National Park and Indio, California. The track is due on June 24 with the video following a day after. For now, watch a brief teaser below. [via Exclaim]