Remember when the Naked and Famous came out with “Young Blood” and we heard nothing else for an entire summer and it was an absolutely brilliant track ? “Flame”, a rip-roaring electrified anthem for the masses, blemished with the scuffed sounds of friction on guitar strings and distorted voices, is Reading foursome Sundara Karma’s replication of that feeling.
Sundara Karma, made up of Berkshire 18-year-olds Oscar Pollock, Haydn Evans, Ally Baty and Dom Cordell, are taking the music world by storm.
From regular airplay on Radio One and mentions in NME to playing Reading Festival via BBC Introducing last year, the boys have been busier than your average college students.
The group’s addictive recent single Indigo Puff has pretty much been on repeat since we first heard it, and we’re nowhere near tired of it yet. Here comes the nest track they played a excellent set at Dot to Dot recently and are now on tour later this year,
Given its debut airtime on Huw Stephens’ Radio 1 show last night, “Flame” gurgles with a humming bass and pulsating undercurrent of drums to dance to, building tingly suspense for plucks of lead guitar, injecting life into the track. Oscar Lulu’s vocals ring clearly above, sounding half agonised but in a hopelessly enrapturing way. It’s a dissonant collection of components that fit together to make a dark, enthralling song that just summery enough for you to have no reason to turn it off for the next four months. Released by Chess Club Records
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