Returning from hiatus, Monoculutre are back with their first piece of creative output since 2018’s Blueprint for Dysfunction. Their latest single, ‘I’ll Do You One Better’, sees the outfit combine their traditional, psychedelic sound with a jazz-fuelled foundation to create a sound that feels fresh and exciting.
The single launches itself across the airwaves with soothing jazz chops and a dynamic drum pattern. Before long, the single’s pop-sensibility swings into action with a bosa-nova-esque beat. Building colourful melodies with intrinsic sonic tapestries, the single divulges a strong creative forefront, brimming with catchy hooks and quick melodies. Mimicking the verse-chorus-verse structure that is omnipresent in pop music of the modern day, Monocultre set out to defy the critics that have come before them in the past.
Speaking about the single, the band’s co-founder Faayani Aboma Mijana explains, “‘I’ll Do You One Better’ is a facetious song poking fun at the traditional pop song structure that people have wielded against the band to deny us opportunities. So we imitated that structure and do it one better with jazz chord progressions and broad instrumentation — all over shifting time signatures. Lyrically, the song was written as I was becoming more conscious as both a worker and as a Black person and in that time was finding how the only way we could solve our issues was to fight for them.”
‘I’ll Do You One Better’ is out now, you can check it out below…
