SIRENS OF LESBOS TAP UP DREAMCASTMOE FOR ‘EVERYTHING’
Sirens Of Lesbos release their intoxicating single ‘Everything’, the latest cut to be taken from their ‘Peace’ album. It follows ‘8 Billion’, where the band worked with the legendary Bootsy Collins, and the Fleetwood Mac-inspired ‘Easy’, soul-funk cut ‘Run Run Run’. Then there’s the ‘90s inspired ‘Sweet Harmony’ and album focus single ‘Bowie’, featuring Erick The Architect.
Originally a demo beat from in-house Dreamville producer Christo (J.I.D, J. Cole, 21 Savage), the band added some finishing touches to create ‘Everything’. “We usually work the other way around,” they say.
As a band with a history of exciting collaborations, they tapped up dreamcastmoe, the Washington DC-based artist blending funk, soul and dance sounds. The cross-genre artist brings his ‘sound is like water’ ethos to the track, mingling with the voices of sister vocalists Jasmina and Nabyla Serag to produce something truly narcotic. It’s a collab that’s happened previously, with Sirens Of Lesbos delivering a thrillingly wonky edit of dreamcastmoe’s Much More.
Opening with the kinds of downcast synth notes reminiscent of Underworld, Everything finds noodling bass notes curling around shimmering pads and skittering breakbeats – the work of producers Melvyn Buss and Arci Friede, plus co-producers the Serag sisters – alongside intriguing sonic touches such as distorted record scratches and ghostly ad-libs.
Sirens Of Lesbos are a band who are inspired by sociopolitics as well as poetry, citing Brave New World author Aldous Huxley as one influence on the record, and the track paints a fictional world that will feel familiar to anyone living in the rat race of a city. “In Everything, the big city becomes a capitalist hell for a small-town soul who has moved there, where life is stifled in noise and dirt, where there is nothing to gain,” the band say. The words point to the eternal unfairness and inequality inherent in life, with the refrain: “Life’s a game / Unfair rules / Often lame”, and “just a few pull the strings in the grand scheme of things”.
Everything ends with the repetition of the phrase: “all I want is a little peace”. For Sirens Of Lesbos, ‘peace’ is an important word – it’s the title of their second full-length album (September 22, 2023). The record is the follow-up to their celebrated 2020 debut Sol, which racked up tens of millions of streams, and found fans in Gilles Peterson, Don Letts and Dan Wilcox from KCRW, plus producers such as Fraser T. Smith (Kasabian, Stormzy) and artists like Erick The Architect. GET RELEASE HERE. Featured as OFF POP Spotify Cover Star.
