It's the rhythm you notice first.
The way each part interlocks, erecting a sustained groove while continually shifting, continually evolving.
Harry Jay-Steele has an innate percussive sense, a near-telepathic ability to rise cresting waves of rhythmic effusion.
New cut 'Reach You' is a highly potent piece of songwriting, nodding towards rock, soul, jazz, and even afrobeat while refusing to sit in any pigeon-hole.
Out today (February 3rd) via Naim Records, and it airs first on Clash. Harry Jay-Steele explains:
"I wrote ‘Reach You’ on a loop pedal with my guitar initially but it really evolved into a song on the computer. It’s a song about a journey, the fears, joy and sorrow that can create in someone – I'll leave it there for other people to take away what they get from it lyrically. Musically the song is inspired by a mix of things – electronic pop, house, early disco, afrobeat."
"The rhythm guitar is central to the songs character, the syncopation of it creates a push and pull affect which can make the song sound like its varying in tempo or rushing at times and I think that feeling of uncertainty really plays on an emotional level when in conjunction with the lyrics."
Tune in now.
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