Stream: Ben Browning, ‘Sunshine Baby’
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Cut Copy bassist Ben Browning shares a flashy new solo single, “Sunshine Baby,” warming our souls today better than a happy pill. This aural dose of bliss is the first single off his second album, “Even Though,” out June 22 via Yellow Year Records.
A mix of wavy synths, funky bass and disco-fied electronic beats reminiscent of Nile Rodgers & Chic, Giorgio Moroder and Wham!, the track is producer/songwriter Browning’s homage to Italo disco and Yukihiro Takashi of Yellow Magic Orchestra. Australian singer/songwriter/producer Woodes (Elle Graham of Melbourne) has the honor of being Browning’s first collaboration, weaving in her breathy soprano from the second verse forward.
The album is a “retrospective journey” through Browning’s musical career from high school through moving to Los Angeles from down under (with that heretofore mentioned band of his happening in between). Of that, he says, “After listening to this record I hope people feel like they’ve gone on a smooth psychedelic journey through a colorful musical world … from a land created by Jim Henson – or perhaps [like] they’re listening [to] a lost George Harrison album recorded in the Caribbean and discovered on a VHS tape 30 years later.”
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