- 2021-02-02
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MUSIC
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Benin City Releases New Song “Freaking You Out”
London based electronic pop trio Benin City, consisting of Joshua Idehen, Tom Leaper and Shanaz Dorsett, released a new song “Freaking You Out” on January 27, 2021.
The song follows up their 2020 standalone singles "Get Your Own", "Mess Like Me" and "Hold Them Close".
Joshua Idehen said of the song, “I wrote it as a soundtrack to Doomscrolling – a 'Doomscrolling disco', if you will. Staring at Twitter, constantly refreshing the screen for the next bit of bad news to blanket over me. Worldwide it’s felt like an even more relentless wave of bad news – especially since 2016 – and hella hard to look away or tune out. My verse is a wish that I could.”
Tom Leaper said, "After leaving it to breathe for a couple of months we knew where we needed to take it. It still has that funky edge to it but with the analogue sounds and dance/pop arrangements that we're known for right now. James Greenwood’s “Aladdin’s cave” of hardware synths can be heard all over this. We had so much fun vibing to this and it went from outlier to dark horse banger.”
Shanaz Dorsett added, “We have ranted in the group chat and comforted each other via Zoom a lot over the last year, and this song is like our collective ‘Oh my god! It’s all just a little too much!' (as the lyrics go.)”- source : Spotify
