Fusing angular art rock and lilting high-life melodies into their uniquely danceable tropical indie sonics, ‘Love Gotten’ finds Bokito in a reflective mood, lyrically at least. The song is, explains singer Moses, “about desperately rushing into a new relationship when your heart has in no way healed. And the true selfishness that goes with hurting good people as a result.”

Such an honest confessional doesn’t stop the band’s third single from being another that could prise the most reluctant wallflower from the back of the party, however, as the fat contrapuntal groove of ‘Love Gotten’ cuts a hip-swaying swathe beneath Moses’ crisscrossing soprano vocal until the whole band combine as one to elevate the slamming chorus. It almost goes without saying for a Bokito release, but ‘Love Gotten’ is a blast from first note to last.  

Having signed to Lost In The Manor Records in early 2017, Bokito’s first two singles, ‘Better at Getting Worse’ and ‘Aloof’ took plaudits and radio plays in plentiful measure, while the band’s jaw-dropping live sets included rousing the rabble in front of a feverish full house at Brighton’s Great Escape, a clamorous full field at LeeFest and a psyched-up capacity crowd at Dublin’s Hard Working-Class Heroes showcase when the band, London-based but largely Irish-bred, voyaged across the Irish Sea.

See Bokito live

Weds 28 February: The Hope and Ruin, Brighton

Thurs 05 April: The Finsbury, London N4

Sun 27 May: Strongroom Bar, London EC2

Noisebody is a keyboard focused pop group based in Berlin. The video for their single, ‘Leaving Theme, is out now. The song is a chill uplifting track, hopeful of a love interest returning. The gravelly keys overtop bouncy bass and drums might remind one of ‘Between Two Stones’, an early Noisebody track.

Noah Barker says of the single, "The video was recorded in Louisville, KY on my phone amidst a road trip I had last summer while considering leaving New York City. I'm mostly breezing around Louisville trying to forget something I once had. Leaving Theme is about change, movement, evolution, coming, going, and of course love. It was inspired by a relationship I had in Louisville that started in Shawnee Park and without warning phased out. It's also inspired by Toro Y Moi's ‘L to Leave’.

Noisebody is a jazz synth-driven pop group from Brooklyn, NY. Noah Barker, born in New York City and raised in Jeffersonville, NY, started playing piano at the age of 7, but it wasn’t until 2003 that he became actively involved in the local music scene, playing piano in church and drums in rock and punk bands. In high school, Noah took a serious interest in jazz and it was around this time that he began recording his songs by 4-track cassette, GarageBand, Reason, and Ableton.