The song is taken from their forthcoming fifth studio album 'Like That', set to be released on October 7 via Chapter Music. Pre-order your copy here.
Cool Sounds fuse jangle-pop sparkle with a supercharged disco-glam stomp on their new album, resulting in something immediate and irresistible.
'Hello, Alright, You Got That?' combines wry, acerbic lyrics with bright, unstoppable pop-funk, finding a sweet spot between Ian Dury & the Blockheads, Hot Chip and 80s 12” mixes by Francois K.
Cool Sounds polymath Dainis Lacey plays almost everything on the record, with a little help from friends like multi-instrumentalist Dylan Young, saxophonist Pierce Morton and German-born vocalist Ambrin Hasnain (with whom Dainis also plays in Partner Look).
About 'Hello, Alright', Dainis says – “My dad was a fan of that brief period in the early 80s where British punks embraced disco. His uni soccer team sang Ian Dury’s Sex and Drugs and Rock n Roll after a win. I searched for a parallel in my own timeline and arrived at 2010-ish indie dance, which holds an equal amount of nostalgia but still stings with the aftertaste of being able to remember too many details from ‘indie club nights’. I think Hello, Alright borrows from both of these memories.”
Watch/listen below.
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