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Donate to support families affected by the crisis in Ukraine ➔ Loud Luxury Releases Debut EP “Nights Like This”: Streaming
Canadian DJ duo Loud Luxury released their debut EP “Nights Like This” on March 27th.
The 4-track EP features guest appearances from Los Angeles-based pop singer Morgan St. Jean, LA-based singer-songwriter Brando and New York-based DJ CID.
Loud Luxury consists of Andrew Fedyk and Joe Depace. The duo debuted with “All for You” in 2015. They won Dance Recording of the Year with "Body" at Juno Award in 2019.
Andrew Fedyk told Apple Music about the EP, “There's something universal about that idea of taking sad songs and making them dance-floor-ready. That’s the why EP is called Nights Like This—it can be the soundtrack to anyone’s night, whatever it is.”
The duo explained each songs of the EP below.- “Aftertaste” featuring Morgan St. Jean
Joe Depace: “We did a songwriter's speed-dating kind of camp one day. It was at a time when Andrew and I were grinding here and were really broke, so we were taking every opportunity. We got to meet a lot of new writers, like this girl named Morgan from LA.”
Andrew Fedyk: “She was a USC student at the time, but she had the most incredible voice—she had this crazy Florence + the Machine vibe to her. And she wrote this song, which was a slower ballad. We were just coming back from Jamaica when we got it, and we were on this energy of wanting to make something really fun and rhythmic and fast, so we took her song and sped it up and did all this crazy stuff to it.”
JD: “We made this before 'Body,' and we didn't really know what was going on with our career. We were ready to pack things up every day, because we didn't know how things were going to go. So this is a really cool one for us, because it's something that we made during the time we were really trying to find our sound.”
“Gummy” featuring Brando
AF: “This was actually the first song we wrote after 'Body' was released [in 2017]. We've been sitting on this for a very long time. It just felt more special to wait and come back to that sound, and make people miss it.”
JD: “brando started off singing the chorus as ‘stretch it out like a Gumby’—like the cartoon character. And we were like, ‘Yo, let's change it to gummy, because it still works’—it could be a gummy bear or anything really sticky and elastic. So we just ran with that concept of being versatile and finessing any situation that you need to.”
“Nights Like This” featuring CID
JD: “We've known [New York DJ] CID for a very, very long time. When we started our bus tour last fall, we were looking at people who could come perform with us and thought CID would be perfect. We worked on the majority of this song while we were on the bus, because we wanted something that we could play together.”
AF: “CID has a more clubby sound. So for us, it was cool to just make something that felt very repetitive and can go off in the club without getting too deep into lyrics and songwriting. And then we decided to do that more atmospheric intro, where it's just the vocal—kind of like The 1975. That was something different for us that was really exciting.”
“Cold Feet”
AF: “This was actually the first song we wrote after 'Body' was released [in 2017]. We've been sitting on this for a very long time. It just felt more special to wait and come back to that sound, and make people miss it.”
JD: “brando started off singing the chorus as ‘stretch it out like a Gumby’—like the cartoon character. And we were like, ‘Yo, let's change it to gummy, because it still works’—it could be a gummy bear or anything really sticky and elastic. So we just ran with that concept of being versatile and finessing any situation that you need to.” - source : Apple Music
