[LISTEN] Courts - Wanna Be High

Basildon beat-makers, Courts, are stretching boundaries and pushing summer past this dreary Bank Holiday weekend with new track, ‘Wanna Be High’. 

It’s only the quintet’s third track and follows on from the infectiously upbeat ‘Part Of’ and the woozy ‘Santana’. Much like the latter, ‘Wanna Be High’ oozes with confident nonchalance and lip-smacking vocals like “I’m on a slave ship from the twenty-first century, I’m twenty four and I’m still running entry” are brushed off casually. 

It’s three minutes in though when Courts really show us what they can do with funk-fuelled guitar riffs that swagger past any chip on their shoulders. It’s a song for the nine-to-five people who are constantly under the clutches of bullshit bosses and surrounded by snakes, a song for the not so Great British public.

You can catch the band in September at Notting Hill Arts Club on the 6th and at Bestival on the 13th and listen to the new track below:

   

By Josh Shreeve

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Raury releases new track "Fly"

Raury ushered in a new generation of consciousness after the 2014 release of his "Indigo Child" EP. The 18-year old singer-songwriter steps into 2015 being praised as this year’s next artist to watch by many of the big players in 'Sounds of 2015' lists.

You can now check out his new cut called "Fly" featuring Malik Shakur.

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Single Review... The Kooks - Down

If you're a follower of Indie-music, at least since the Brighton lads had "their time" in 2005-2011, about then you're pretty right about that they DO sound very different. It's surely this first sentence I had in my mind when I was doing some research through google to find their new single.

And that's exactly the thing I wanna talk about. The Kooks are musicians who are still worth to be considered or to let your interest into the vocals of Luke and the music of the long-haired. You never stop loving them because they gave you very much in your earlier teenage period, on where you danced really stupid or tried to find the tightest jeans.

"Down" sounds like you should go for XXXL though. Absolutely groovey, that's for sure, but definitely not the thing everybody expected. Nice recording and an ace drumsound. Surely beautiful sprinkled with backvox-screams, but that's about it... I really hoped on a "Konk 2" or a rascal rock'n'roll attitude. Now what is it, what the southern guys were thinkin'? Let's hope they give answers on live concerts or future interviews.

This is surely not my kind of taste. Luke, Hugh, Peter & Paul, I'm very sorry to say this, but you need something more to make a more honest groove. We all know you got it. Show us what you got.

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