Meanwhile – a prodigiously talented singer, producer and film composer who has drawn comparisons to Prince - has just premiered his debut track, ‘Luvletta’ (out on Fiction Records/Universal), a track which contrasts lyrics of infatuation and conflict with futuristic funk, juddering synths and big beats.
Meanwhile’s music is a heady mix of the escapist and the everyday, the familiar with the strange and new: think the Minneapolis Sound, via the M3. His entry to songwriting came via cinema, when the sweeping sounds of Danny Elfman, Tim Burton’s long-time collaborator, instilled an early love of film scores: he took up the piano, and began composing ambitious pieces after school. This habit emerged late last year, when Meanwhile quietly uploaded a selection of movie re-interpretations to Youtube (‘Luvletta’ was hinted at when combined with the explosive fight-scene from Korean revenge thriller ‘Oldboy’). And as he moved from soundtrack pieces to the ambitious bedroom productions of his solo material, so too came the controlled, world-building possibilities of character, akin to Gorillaz or Janelle Monae - through which every frustration he daren’t say aloud could finally be brought to vivid, colourful life.
Check out the track below.
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