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London creatives 0171 are back with another interesting release through their new single ‘The Beach’.

Taken from the upcoming EP ‘Welcome Back To My Channel’, the track cleverly fuses elements of indie, electronica and pop with light drum & bass, serving listeners with a sound that is immediately striking and refreshingly unique in character.

“‘The Beach’ was written in twenty minutes at a moment of real sadness and frustration. I (Joe) had had a couple of days trying to write on my own, discarding everything I made, feeling worse and worse, and mainly spending hours in the addictive ocean of YouTube. Eventually I left the studio and went and lay on my bed with just the laptop, no instruments, feeling like I didn’t know how to make music anymore. I scribbled out the lyrics thinking melodramatic thoughts about it being the last song I ever write. Georgie had been getting into Space Age pop and the golden era of 60’s Italian library music, so I threw a couple of her samples in and made a beat, and ended up speaking the words cause I felt too fed up to try writing a melody. So often with music you have to shake yourself out of routine to make anything that excites you. ‘The Beach’ doesn’t really sound like much else.”

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Acclaimed London-based duo 0171 return today with an eccentric yet thought-provoking mix of electronica, indie and hyperpop through new single ‘Burnout’.

“‘Burnout’ is a collage of the way people think when they are depressed. We liked the idea of singing about propofol, a general anaesthetic, and the song reflects that soft numbness. There’s a kind of release in admitting you’re burning out, the song has a strangely uplifting feeling to us. As we wrote darker lyrics than we had done previously, the songs got faster and more upbeat, like we were finding the fun again in making music.”

Co-released alongside ‘The Basics Are Coming Back’ which is available now. Upcoming EP ‘Welcome Back To My Channel’ is out soon.

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A bold release from Hackney-based duo 0171, with a sound that merges industrial beats and indie-pop to create an experience that feels intriguingly warped and overwhelmingly intense.

“’Change Nothing’ is a song for the times you sit staring at a wall, and see days stretched out in an uninspiring line. But, as with all our music, there’s a kind of defiance in it as well. It’s you and me versus the sadness. It’s you at my side, trying to keep our heads up. The sound is aggressive – the message is not about giving up, it’s about shouting in the darkness.”

Taken from the EP ‘Change Nothing’ which is out now.

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