The Gulps share their second single ‘Stuck in the City’
The second single from the band signed by Alan McGee — the same person who signed Oasis
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The Gulps newest single — their first in two years and their debut signed to Alan McGee’s Its Creation Baby — sees the intertwining of a classic and distinct indie rock sound, with blunt and unsparing truths about the world we all begrudgingly live in.
The London based band finds its roots all over Europe and the Middle East, with frontman Harry All and guitarist Charlie Green hailing from Spain, bassist Simon Mouchard from France, rhythm guitarist Francesco Buffone from Italy, and drummer Raoul Khayat from Lebanon. All drawn to the UK to be able to feed their creative hunger, they quickly knew something was special when they all met, and ergo, The Gulps were born.
Stuck in the City reels in the first time listener from its overwhelming raw power; the song encapsulates the idea of itself as a wake-up call against the grey bleak consumerist world we all find ourselves locked into. The lyrics match too – filling the listener with an existential dread; a dread that will only end when the listener takes up the bands’ call and makes sure that they’re not the one that loses their soul. It’s not hard to imagine that the fact that the band formed in London probably had quite some inspiration for the writing of this song.
Harry All says of the single: “Our today’s torture labs are advertisement, consuming, social media… Becoming a sleepy society, advocated to consume drugs, to get likes, to buy online, every day we see how mental health becomes a bigger issue in our daily lives.
“When that disappears the loneliness comes and we become a vulnerable, clean sweep society. That’s Stuck in the City, it shows how a person feels in such an aggressive economic and inequality system.”
Among others, the band cite some of their primary musical inspirations as The Strokes and The Clash, and that’s clear in their debut – they seem to tie that certain distinct indie rock sound together with a level of political punk rock, and the results are really quite impressive.
Harry All’s performance is nothing short of excellent on this track. There’s something very Mick Jagger-esque about his performance, and it makes you excited to hear more of The Gulps in the future.
