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Welsh Soul Siren Kaysha Louvain Joined The Vanities for a Seductive Retro Funk Rendezvous in Shona

Posted on 13 October 2026

If sex really does sell, Shona, the latest single by Cardiff production duo The Vanities, featuring Kaysha Louvain, has all the ingredients of a multi-platinum proposition.

The funk-fuelled reinvention of retro soul delivers all the swagger of Red Rum Club through a full-bodied arrangement, complete with brass to bring warmth to the production, as hypnotically layered harmonies rise through the mix, filter through your lungs and kinetically compel you to get into the groove.

There’s a knowingly seductive streak running through the single, with its disco sensibilities giving the throwback aesthetic enough rhythmic persuasion to coax a few inhibitions onto the dancefloor. The brass brings a generous taste of vintage glamour, while the vocal harmonies provide the smoothness that keeps the arrangement weightless.

Following their 2025 collaboration, The End of Love, The Vanities and the award-winning Welsh singer-songwriter reunite for another excursion into retro-inflected pop.

Produced at Shabbey Road Studios with Al Steele of The Korgis, Shona also features Ryan Jones, AKA Mr Poison, of Electric Six on bass, bringing an additional dose of funk to the earworm, resulting in a groove-conscious release with an affectionate appreciation for the seductive excesses of vintage soul and disco.

Shona is now available on major streaming platforms, including Spotify, via PYST/The Orchard/Sony.

Review by Amelia Vandergast.

Tynosario painted inhibition-free psychedelia across disco-funk grooves in ‘Daily Life’

Posted on 5 October 2025

Instead of chasing a place among the pack, Tynosario rejects the mediocrity of aural conformity entirely, not just through the dinosaur mask he wears under his headphones in the video for Daily Life. He is the embodiment of marching to the pulse of his own drum machine, vibing through the polyphonic bliss he conjures with grooves laced in indietronic colour and a magnetic disco-funk signature. The track arrives as an abstract sermon, written between the synth lines, urging listeners to discard inhibitions, shed the shackles of perception, and reimagine their reality in shades entirely their own.

Daily Life unravels like a kaleidoscopic transmission. The rhythms invite you into a space where eccentricity is the law, and the psychedelically wrapped outro serves as a parting ritual, ensuring the experience lingers long after the final note. It is less a song than a hallucinatory ride into the recesses of your own imagination, where the distortion of perspective becomes the very point of clarity.

Since the conception of the Tynosario project, the enigmatic experimentalist has been merging genres with a reckless freedom that refuses to be defined. From choreomania grooves and programmed beats that thunder like storms to mellow passages that float like dream fragments, his sonic world is a vortex where nothing predictable survives. Daily Life is only the latest portal into that surreal continuum, but it solidifies his position as an artist who knows how to transform eccentric spectacle into sound that electrifies both body and psyche.

Daily Life is now available on all major streaming platforms; watch the official music video on YouTube. 

Review by Amelia Vandergast

MEVS sent a surge of funk-riding euphoria through the airwaves with his feel-good disco-pop anthem, Groovin’

Posted on 17 November 2022

Carving his own untrodden path back to the 70s, the Puerto Rican trailblazer, MEVS, unleashed the soul-stirring slice of euphoric funk-riding disco-pop, Groovin’.

While artists will tune in with envy of his capacity to release such a blazing debut, fans of funk, alt-RnB and authentic old-school soul will surrender to the danceable electricity in the progressively dynamic release, which paints across the brighter corners of the tonal spectrum.

Starting with the sultry rolling basslines in the smoky prelude before exploding into a riot of flavour with Nile Rodgers guitar chops and a strong brass section, immersing yourself in this intrinsically rhythmic earworm which uses ‘never give up, never give in’ as an enlivening reprise will always send a flood of dopamine through your synapses.

Groovin’ is the first single from MEVS’ debut album, Sentient Beings in the Streets, which is set to release in 2023. Even if you don’t stay tuned, something tells me his enlivening soul will be coming to a dance floor near you anyway.

Groovin’ is now available to stream on Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

The Moontown Project remind us how sweet intemperance can be with their latest single ‘Moon Honey’ featuring Archie Weir

Posted on 29 January 2021

‘Romantic’ encounters may have been reduced to awkward interactions on Tinder during lockdown, but the Moontown Project is here, with their latest 70s disco-inspired single, ‘Moon Honey’ to remind us how sweet intemperance can be.

With their highly-anticipated single, created in collaboration with Archie Weir, The Leeds & London-based indie electronica duo paint vivid amorous imagery by sweeping right across the tonal palette. Moon Honey shows how serious the Moontown Project are about bringing colour to our increasingly monochromatic planet.

If you’ve ever hit an indie disco dancefloor, you’ll know exactly which scenario Moon Honey depicts; that moment when you barely want to think about your life beyond strobe lights, music and strangers who tempt you into hedonism. The deep funky guitar chops and grooves combined with shimmering synths create the perfect platform for the mischievously soulful vocals to float on in the enlivening radio-ready single.

The Moontown Project take inspiration from artists who defy genre constraints such as MGMT and Gorillaz. They’re just as adept when creating a balance between accessibility and cross-genre experimentation. With their tendency to take from techno, electro-funk, house, hip hop and indie, The Moontown Project’s spacey synth-heavy sound is a recipe for commercial success.

The lockdown-born project which consists of Will Swain-Smith (guitar and vocals) and Guy Molony (keys, bass vocals) have already amassed plenty of airplay and adoration on BBC Introducing, London and Amazing Radio. When restrictions are finally lifted, I have no doubt that the Moontown Project will be here to make sure that our moods are lifted in venues. Get them on your radar.

Moon Honey is now available to stream on Spotify.

Keep up to date with the latest releases from The Moontown Project via Facebook and Instagram.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

 

The Turner Brothers’ new single is seriously on the ‘Money’

Posted on 23 December 2020

When seventies-style funk/electro-pop meets modern hip hop and ska, you’ve pretty much got The Turner Brothers. With new single ‘Money’, we get exactly that; serious soul-funk groove and hip hop vocals on the verses, jangly off-beat guitar and hip-swinging bass goodness spliced seamlessly into horn-section stabs and ska-funk choruses. It’s a brilliant track, the chorus catchier than those annoying little grass seeds that stick in your clothes and refuse to let go. And that’s pretty catchy.

There’s a mixture of the nutty boys and the 2Tone scene in there with nods to Madness and the Specials, mixed with jazzy soul/funk like Jamiroquai or the Brand New Heavies, but the Turner Brothers – a ten-piece line-up, no less, fronted by brothers (the clue’s in the name) Pat and Tony Turner – have taken elements of all their influences and seriously mixed them up, coming out with a sound all of their own.

On ‘Money’, it really does hook, the brass section adding little frissons of excitement atop the hip hop funk, and it really isn’t relinquishing its hold any time soon. ‘Money’ really is a serious ear-worm party-tune, and in 2020 that’s really no bad thing at all.

See the video for ‘Money’, and follow the Turner Brothers, on Facebook.

Review by Alex Holmes.

Delve into the deep grooves of DJ Creativity’s latest mix ‘The Music Moves Me’ feat MX

Posted on 17 December 2020

EDM artist and producer DJ Creativity teamed up with MX to create their latest feat of danceably electric Disco ‘The Music Moves Me’.

Funk deep grooves wind their way through the Deep House Disco mix which is sure to instil euphoria in everyone who finds the soulfully retro entrancing hit. There may be plenty of odes to Old School, but with the funk-riding basslines, there’s a modernist twist to the sound which has kept dancefloors alive for decades.

You can check out The Music Moves me by DJ Creativity for yourselves by heading over to Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Cloverchild brings in the future of Funk with “Down Deep”

Posted on 22 October 2020
https://cloverchild.bandcamp.com/track/down-deep

Chicago-based Indie artist Cloverchild blessed the airwaves with lashings of futuristic Funk with the release of their album Fool’s Paradise which dropped October 2nd.

Hit play and immerse yourself in a high-vibe medley of Disco tones, playful electronica and Rock-inclined rhythmic prowess. The perfect introduction to their charismatically compassionate approach to Indie is “Down Deep”. If you could imagine what it would sound like if you came across John Grant on a good day, you’ll get an idea of the groovy soulful appeal which Down Deep has to offer.

You can check out Down Deep with the rest of Cloverchild’s 2020 album via Bandcamp.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Mestizo Beat drops their latest feat of Disco Funk “Midnite Nurse”

Posted on 1 November 2019

Up and coming Disco Funk artist Mestizo Beat dropped their latest single “Midnite Nurse” on September 18th. By creating an eccentric, genre-contorting soundscape from slightly archaic tones, Mestizo Beat was able to offer the airwaves an instantaneously accessible single. But through the rhythmic experimentalism contained in Midnite Nurse, the track still boasts a contemporary feel.

With unexpected increments of tribal drums interrupting the organic progressions of wah-soaked guitars, Mestizo Beat keeps you hooked in the high-energy instrumental mix. If you like your Funk with plenty of arrestive groove, it’s safe to say that you’ll love the colourful 70s nostalgia which Midnite Nurse throws at you.

You can check out Mestizo Beat’s latest track Midnite Nurse for yourselves by heading over to YouTube now.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Jason Gill – Pedestal: Eccentrically Sticky-Sweet Disco Funk

Posted on 24 February 2019

While some may regard Disco Funk as slightly archaic as genres go thanks to the unmistakable 70s groove, there’s no better sound to bring a dancefloor to life than the sound of anthemic Soul. Which is exactly what up and coming artist Jason Gill created with his latest single “Pedestal”.

Not only is Pedestal one of the most euphoric hits to come out of the genre in recent years, but it’s also so much more than a floor filler. Jason Gill managed to create a poignant social commentary on women’s rights within his anthemically Funk-driven track. Sentiment aside, there’s plenty more charm to be found through Jason Gill’s vocals which should be of appeal to any fans of Adam Levine along. In the incredibly electric instrumental mix you can expect orchestral swells to accentuate the sticky-sweet layers of disco with the odd infusion of sonic synths.

You can check out Jason Gill’s latest single Pedestal for yourselves by heading over to SoundCloud now.

Review by Amelia Vandergast