Refuge: What If?
(Self Launched)
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Refuge, the London-based 5 piece fronted by Welsh singer and guitarist Joe Corbett, have launched their new single entitled, What If, asking whether or not we may do issues a distinct method and hold the identical innocence and acceptance that we’ve as youngsters.
It’s a stomper of a monitor with thunderous drums delivering a glam rock beat accompanied by a driving bass. Joe’s affords some impassioned vocals which combine in with the tracks screaming guitars. It a belter which you could flip as much as 11 so as to guarantee not solely you, however your neighbours take pleasure in it because it shakes the partitions.
The quintet are made are up of aforementioned Joe together with Andrius Damusis (guitars), Matteo Iachetti (keyboards), Ike Onwuagbu (bass) and Louis Macfarlane (drums). They’re the very definition of cosmopolitan: considered one of three siblings and introduced up by his mom and stepfather, the entrance man is from Llanishen, a small village north of Cardiff, while guitarist and multi-instrumentalist hails from a small city within the south of Lithuania, the keyboardist comes from Teramo, near the Adriatic coast, while the bassist is considered one of 4 siblings of Nigerian heritage. Simply to complete off the drummer was born in Leytonstone.
The only is lifted from the debut characteristic size EP, Nearly Practically There, which is due for launch later this 12 months featurning 7 tracks and follows their debut single, Bored, which arrived in March with the video has garnering over 200,000 views on YouTube alone. The album options seven tracks together with each singles, and together with tracks such because the funked-up Woman of the Evening which was impressed by a intercourse employee that Joe used to see seven days per week on his early morning supply shift, the epic, prog-pop infused Crucial Mass, the bluesy Lay It On Me – in regards to the exuberance of youth and shedding your virginity to somebody who is much extra skilled than you… Practically comes throughout because the bastard little one of Roxy Music’s Virginia Plain, and Low Winter Solar, a mirrored image on the lengthy and winding street that’s led to Refuge’s level within the musical universe.
All of Refuge are all passionate advocates for the Music Venue Belief, and particular person members additionally help the Oasis Hub, Waterloo – a centre proving neighborhood actions, programmes and workshops – in addition to working for non-profit music charities just like the Newham Music Belief.
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Band picture equipped by Jane Savidge PR
All phrases by Iain Key. See his writer profile right here or discover him on Bluesky
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