Breakout U.K. sibling duo CHAMPS’ video for their track “Katrina” has premiered on Ones To Watch. Of the song, Ones To Watch calls it “a wonderfully wrought, colorfully illustrated, synth-drenched pop track that features the brothers most cryptic and wildly imaginative songwriting.”
The song is taken from their third studio album, The Hard Interchange, which is out now via BMG.
Over the past three years, the brothers spent time writing, recording and ultimately leaving the Isle of Wight to immerse themselves in the London music scene. It was in the East End where they ran into American producer Sean Oakley (Frank Ocean, Portugal The Man, James Blake) and felt immediate creative chemistry. The three committed to executing a vision and between the stone walls of a monastery-turned-studio called Chale Abbey, The Hard Interchange was created.
CHAMPS’ debut album, Down Like Gold, was lauded amongst critics with rave reviews from Q Magazine who proclaimed its “satisfying melodic warmth” and The Line of Best Fit who called it “incredible folk pop.” The record also received substantial radio support in The U.K. at BBC6, BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2, including a live session on the popular “Dermot O’Leary Show.”
Their follow-up album, Vamala, came 366 days later and received significant airplay in the U.K. as well, while the lead track of the same name garnered five million Spotify streams. CHAMPS has since toured Europe relentlessly with festival appearances at The Great Escape and the Isle of Wight’s Ventnor Fringe. The brothers have also supported Alt-J, Lord Huron and Wolf Alice.
