Hector Delicious, George Van den Broek, and Milo-G have long been associated with the Yellow Days live band, having performed together since their teenage years. Occasionally, the band members have taken a break from their regular duties, surfacing under a different moniker – The Stingrays – to play new material at intimate, enthusiastically received shows for their most devoted fans. Now, The Stingrays are ready to mark a new chapter on their own terms with the release of their debut EP, entitled ‘My Everything’ (which you can listen to here from tomorrow Friday, September 6th).
The title track offers a captivating glimpse into the band’s sonic universe. Swirling with classic psychedelia, the track evokes the laid-back warmth of George Harrison’s “Living in the Material World” era. Anchored by the band’s three-way vocal harmonies and mesmerizing, virtuosic musicianship, the song exudes a quality that’s impossible to ignore.
Sharing insight into the song, Bassist Hector Delicious says, “‘My Everything’ is about the weak-kneed effect of love. Just melting under the gaze of someone special. How simple things like the sound of them saying your name and being able to hold them makes you completely powerless.
And all you can do is hand over ownership of you and your world. As that’s all the things you have and are able to offer them. In exchange of course, all you want is them, forever.”
The EP’s second track, ‘Just A Fish In The Sea’, possesses an even more ageless quality than its predecessor. George Van den Broek’s rich, resonant vocals rekindling echoes of the classic soul of the sixties, while the evocative guitar lends a free-flowing emotional resonance.
Drummer Milo-G chimes in about this track, saying, “‘Just a Fish In The Sea’ is about existentialism. About how powerless we are in life, it’s a testimony of the belief in fate over free-will. How small we are in the big picture of the universe and let alone just this world we live in.
It encourages you to just enjoy the small things in life and that that is truly enough to live a happy life. That the larger greater forces should be or are by nature left to the stars, universe or even god depending on your outlook. Not to creatures like us.”
The Stingrays recorded both songs during their second studio session, under the Dom’s Subs sandwich shop on Hackney Road, east London. There, the trio were joined by guitarist The Ib, and the session proved fruitful, inspiring further tracks that will be released in due course.
Hector Delicious and Milo-G have stepped away from touring with Yellow Days, to prioritise The Stingrays’s project whilst George still wanted to be able to play music with his old friends. In 2023, the group released seven tracks in just six months, all recorded during their first studio session and they are now focusing on taking their career to the next level. The band’s other music occasionally ventures into more unconventional and energetic realms, yet their distinctive sound is sure to resonate with fans who discovered them through their previous work. The Stingrays and Yellow Days have both the surface-level similarities and deeper differences, comparable to those between two distant cousins who have never met.
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