SABATTA – “GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER”
A SPILL EXCLUSIVE MUSIC PREMIERE
By the time a large part of the world kind of work up to Bad Brains, they were already not performing live, but their music lived on to influence generations. Rolling Stone magazine called them “the mother of all black hard-rock bands” and with good reason. Enter London-based artist Sabatta. Here you have a wild child psychedelic fast-rock band that has listened to their mother very well. Or, as they say, they are their motherβs child.
Now back with a new single β “Get Your Shit Together” β Sabatta sounds like the most awesome mΓ©lange of Bad Brains, Jimi Hendrix, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lenny Kravitz, and Parliament / Funkadelic. There is also something here reminiscent of The Veldt and Dope Sagittarius. And you just know, even before listening, that this has got to be amazing. Get ready for your mind to be blown. This groove-laden track that is as addictive as it is memorable, this song heralds his impending albumΒ ‘How To Get Evenβ.
Revolving around guitarist and songwriterΒ Yinka Oyewole, who was raised in Essex and is of Nigerian lineage, Sabatta crafts a raw and individual sound with spiky guitar and an inimitable voice, like a mix of Hendrix, QOTSA and early Red Hot Chili Peppers strained through the sieve of South London. And it’s no wonder with musical influences ranging from Curtis Mayfield, Prince, Tupac and Hendrix to Bad Brains, Thin Lizzy, Parliament / Funkadelic and Black Sabbath.
Charismatic and wild, frontman Yinka Oyewole leads the band through psychedelia, grunge punk and funk with highlights including some great shredding and falsetto heights towards the end. Consolidating sounds and cutting across artificially-constructed genre boundaries, Sabatta drives a blaze of fiery, magnetic vocals, funked-out bass and thrashing guitar. It doesnβt get any better folks β take it and run!
At the songβs opening, we are confronted with furiously fuzzy guitars that return to growl at us in each chorus. This contrasts with super wah-wah riffing in the verse, all leading up to sweet solo shredding in the musical breakdown. All this matched with Yinkaβs lyrical vulnerability about struggling with the hedonistic lifestyle musicians often feel compelled to indulge in. Here we have a concoction as hard to resist as the demons Yinka is waging war with through his words, emphasizing that weβve all got to get our shit together at some point – there’s no better time than the present.
Yinka OyewoleΒ says “this is the most cohesive and free Sabatta album Iβve produced. Itβs also the most raw and unfiltered. I love storytelling, I love guitar playing, I love grooves. And I love being my own person, even if that’s seen as rebellious or contrary, on the new album Iβm just being me.”
Produced and mixed by Yinka Oyewole forΒ Blackfriars Entertainment,Β this album was recorded byΒ Alex FranklinosΒ atΒ Shrunken Heads StudioΒ (King Krule, Ghostpoet, Songdog, Domino Records)Β and mastered at London’sΒ EC MasteringΒ (Sony, Universal, BBC),
Yinka Oyewole began making noise with their debut album Middle Of the Night, released in 2015. With their sound, being compared to Hendrix and QOTSA, but Β with an edge like Bad Brains and The Clash, the albumβs lead single “Politician”Β garnered national play onΒ BBC 6 Music, setting the band off touring nationally.
Some may call this “grunge soul” or “funk-punk rock”, but it is also very much “alternative rock” in the sense that it rests on raw-as-f**k riffs with thought-police proof lyrics that provide a view alternative to the conventional wisdom. Here we have super dirty riffs, grooves that would make both Black Sabbath and George Clinton proud, lyrics with the vitriol and vulnerability of Tupac, and the wit of Elvis Costello.
Youβll be able to download “Get Your Shit Together” or stream it from the usual digital platforms, including Spotify,Β Apple MusicΒ andΒ Bandcamp. But it wonβt be until November 17 that Sabatta will generously unleash their new album on the world.
CREDITS
Music and lyrics by Yinka Oyewole
Recorded by Alex Franklinos at Shrunken Heads Studio, London
Produced and mixed by Yinka Oyewole for Blackfriars Entertainment
Mastered by Aaron McIntosh at EC Mastering, London
Guitar, Bass, Vocals – Yinka Oyewole
Drums – Adam Frederick Jacques
Video created by Keif Gwinn for Sketch in Studios, co-directed by Yinka Oyewole
Cover artwork by Tilt Designs
Artist photography by Marisa Knight
Please enjoy even more music from Sabatta:
Sabatta
[Single]
Black Friar Entertainment
Release Date: September 15, 2023
ArtistΒ Links
Background Photo Credit: Marisa Knight
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