Brighton-based producer and musician DanFromUpstairs returns with a brand new release just a month after the release of Cupid’s Error and fuelling up for the premiere of his debut album Hopeless Fables that we will be able to enjoy on October 18th. With the arrival of Love, out now, featuring West London vocalist Luke Matthews, Dan proves the gender-bending qualities of his sound and how he’s able to successfully mix different influences, where the result is unique to his style while also making sense sonically, with that relistening quality so important to the success of a song. With Matthew's powerful vocals and Dan’s invention behind the song, Love is an infectious indie pop bop.
About the song Dan says, "Love is the cynical soliloquy of someone uninterested in being in love, because they are focused on self-preservation and are above its illogical, petty trivialities. However, through the cracks, the jaded and bitter nature of their portrayal is obvious to the listener," and the idea of this is captured perfectly in the music video that accompanies the song, in which Matthews is the protagonist. As attempting to display the typical acts of love one does when trying to get someone's heart—giving them roses, playing music outside their window, or preparing a romantic picnic—the real sense of frustration behind love and its implications makes Matthews want to destroy everything, with the stellar breakdown as the BGM.
The upcoming album will follow this conceptual style, covering a wide palette of genres that allows Dan to explore electronica, funk, hip-hop, jungle, and rock before landing on a dark, theatrical folk finale, all while finding the way to weave the signature DanFromUpstairs sound in all of them. The work has been cooking for a while and has followed an organic path of self-discovery that assures us that the outcome is the best possible. The final result will formulate this question, “What if the spirits that controlled our fate were just as hopeless as we are?” We can find our own answer on October 18th.