JAMES VINCENT McMORROW
& KENNY BEATS

drop brand new track

‘I SHOULD GO’

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James Vincent McMorrow has dropped brand new track ‘I Should Go’, co-produced with Kenny Beats (Idles, slowthai, Omar Apollo). A platinum-selling artist who has independently clocked up over 750  million streams,  reached  #1  in his home of Ireland and seen his music travel everywhere from Drake’s ‘Views’ to ‘Game Of Thrones’, ‘I Should Go’ acts as a further window  into  the  world  of  McMorrow’s  upcoming  fifth  studio album – which  was introduced in bold fashion with recent single ‘Headlights’.

Speaking on ‘I Should Go’ for the first time today, James says…

“The first lyric of this song is ‘I never thought I’d ever need you around / it’s hard enough to be me only.’

“That pretty much sums up the energy. It’s  not  about  what  we  want, it’s  about  what  we need. A lot of time I don’t think there’s a difference between those 2 things. But there is, a big one.  I  do  not  need  a  lot  of  the  things  I  think  I  do,  and  there  are  other  things  that  feel unimportant but are in fact the foundations that I exist on top of.

“I’ll genuinely never figure out which is which, I still obsess over dumb shit and I still take so much for granted. To say I’m getting more comfortable with my chaos is probably untrue, doubt I’ll ever be comfortable. But I do understand it a little more, and I think I embrace it a little more; embrace the chaos of it all.

“I fucking adore this song, the second I put the guitar parts together I knew it was going to be something I adored. I sat in a room with Kenny and played him what I had and I think he  immediately  got  it;  I  had  this  feeling  going  into  the  studio  that  day  that  he  was  the person  who  could  take  the  idea  and  elevate  it  into  the  space  I  wanted  it  to  be.  I was definitely correct.”

Holding  onto  those  moments  of  clarity in  the  chaos  is  emblematic  of  where  James Vincent McMorrow finds himself in 2020. That rare artist who’s as integral to the worlds of  hip-hop  and  R&B  as  he  is  the  singer-songwriter roots of debut album EARLY IN THE MORNING (which turns 10 this year), one constant has been James’ intuitive, bigger-picture  approach  to  each  project;  the  idea  of  doing  exactly  what  you need to  do,  when you need to do it. And it’s this more personal growth – the confidence to turn all he’s learnt into uplifting, purposefully-chaotic pop -that is evident across McMorrow’s latest work.

First single ‘Headlights’ was written not so much about life making sense, but making peace with the fact that nothing does: a fact which was reinforced when the song dropped amidst lockdown, and the original video had to be scrapped in favour of a more intimate approach. The ‘Headlight’s video also acted as an affecting snapshot of another big change in James’ life, as it featured his daughter Margot (as shot by his partner Emma). The single’s meditative follow up, ‘I Should Go’, was recorded with fellow genre-collider Kenny Beats, as James worked between Dublin, LA and London with similarly world-class talent (Paul Epworth, Lil Silva, Patrick Waveley) on a brand new chapter in his career, and his life in general. Watch out for more for from James coming soon, including his recently announced headline tour in the UK and Europe. 

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