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About ‘Citizen’
 
“We were looking for that sweet spot between a jazz-funk disco and the house band of a late-night chat show for people who don’t sleep at night, I think we found it on this one.”
 
At a time when bands gravitate towards historical pastiche, Late TV have taken their classic funk, disco and jazz influences into deep inventive waters to emerge with something unique and vital. Recalling the visceral joy of great music played by sharp idiosyncratic players, ’Citizen’ is the sound of a culture singing into the void. Its complex lyrical themes about dissatisfaction with quotidian life are presented through the flamboyant instrumentation of a six-piece group who sound like a funk jazz orchestra. Evoking the Lynchian sense that beneath the world of appearances there lurks an elemental darkness and dissatisfaction, Late TV are the torch bearers of dangerous, risky music - as evinced in the song’s eerie and unforgettable one-word chorus. On ‘Citizen’ they’ve created something that exists in the hinterland between madness and invention, a strange and terrible beast, but one born from unquestionable inspiration.

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