Two new, laid back and languid tracks from The Stingrays.

Release Date: 6th September 2024

Format: digital

As part of the Yellow Days live band, Hector Delicious, George Van den Broek and Milo-G have performed together all over the world since they were teenagers. In-between globe-trotting tours, they’ve sporadically surfaced to moonlight and play all-new music as The Stingrays.

The Stingrays now step into the spotlight in their own right as they share their debut EP and video for My Everything which gives a glimpse into the eccentric world of The Stingrays. It’s a hazy daydream in which classic psychedelia swirls around the laid-back warmth and the band’s three-way vocal harmonies and relaxed but perfectly suited musicianship. Musically it may be of the classic ilk of of George Harrison circa Living In The Material World or even modern day Dylan crooning his way through Make You Feel My Love.

“‘My Everything’ is about the weak-kneed effect of love,” says Hector. ” 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.”

If possible, the EP’s second track, Just A Fish In The Sea, (“about existentialism; how powerless we are in life; 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“) possesses an even more languid and timeless qualit . Rich, sonorous vocals from George Van den Broek bring a classic Sixties soul sound to mind, while the evocative guitar keeps its emotional resonance in freeflow with the reminder to simply enjoy the simple things in life.

Both songs were recorded when The Stingrays gathered for just their second ever studio session beneath the Dom’s Subs sandwich shop on Hackney Road, east London. The trio were joined by guitarist The ib, and the session resulted in further tracks that will follow in the future.

The Stingrays online: Youtube / Instagram

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