In honour of The Boss’s birthday, Lucy Dacus has released a cover of Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Dancing In The Dark’. This is the fourth instalment of her 2019 holiday song series, following her Valentine’s Day cover of ‘La Vie En Rose’, and original songs ‘My Mother & I’ and ‘Forever Half Mast’, celebrating Mother’s Day and Independence Day, respectively. Lucy’s ongoing 2019 singles series will also include tracks tied to Halloween, Christmas, and New Year’s, with a physical EP coming in Autumn.

In ‘Dancing In The Dark’ Lucy pays tribute to one of her role models with an inspired Bruce Springsteen cover that foregrounds her ebullient guitar playing. She swaps out the synth line of the original tune in favour of up-tempo strumming patterns that coalesce with her arresting vocals to reinvigorate an American classic.

“Happy birthday to Bruce” says Dacus, “but also happy birthday to my dad, the biggest Bruce fan I know and the reason I've listened to The Boss since birth. I resisted it when I was younger as a rebellion to my dad's taste, but I have come to love his music on my own time. His lyricism is embedded in my own songwriting inextricably at this point.”

Fusing the leather-clad swagger of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, the bluesy 4/4 stomp of the Black Keys and the simmering electronic rumblings of early Kasabian, ’75 Trips’ finds Reflekter in brooding, empowering form.

The band’s James Gooch takes us inside the new track’s inspiration and creation: “‘75 trips around the sun’ is a phrase I’d heard used to describe our average lifespan and is about making the most of the time you’ve got and generally living everyday like it’s your last. It’s about wanting to make an impact and leaving something behind.  It was a song that really came to life in the studio and quickly evolved into the sound we were looking for. After that the rest seemed to fall into place.”

To mark the release of the new single on 7” vinyl, Reflekter will be launching the single with an exclusive in-store show at Rough Trade Nottingham where they will be performing a 45-minute set and signing copies of the record.

One of Nottingham’s hottest new prospects right now, Reflekter formed in May 2018 and have already been compared to rock’n’roll greats like Echo & the Bunnymen and Kasabian. A singer and songwriter on the circuit already, frontman James Gooch may already be familiar to some for his work with BBC Introducing praised act: Same Streets. Parking the project after meeting his brothers in arms at a Fontaines DC gig in Nottingham, Reflekter were born that day. Wasting little time, the band quickly began laying down tracks together at a local recording studio. These early demos soon found themselves in the lap of Jake Bugg manager Jason Hart who instantly recognised their potential. Within a year of their formation the band released their first single ‘Caught in a Storm', a track which organically clocked up over 20,000 streams in a week and had BBC Introducing’s Dean Jackson placing on the coveted “ones to watch list 2019”.

2019 DATES

SEPTEMBER

29 - Dundee - Beat Generator

30 - Edinburgh - Sneaky Pete's

OCTOBER

4 - Rough Trade Nottingham In-Store

4 - Nottingham Bodega - SOLD OUT!

5 - Newcastle - Surf Cafe

13 - Leeds - Oporto