With her latest EP Say, Memphis LK shows she's in full form for festival season, offering five bass-driven party anthems.
“Nuh-uh, don’t touch me, baby/ Step back, ‘cause I’m having fun” – hands off unless explicitly invited, amirite?Opener Don’t Touch Me Baby (ft. Melbourne’s own DJ Boring) is a cranking ‘Fuck off, I’m dancing!’ anthem.
This is Memphis LK – one of Paul Kelly’s daughters – in speak-sung, cool-girl (“with the baddie allure”) mode: “You don’t need to buy me drinks, ‘cause I got the funds.”
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“Doo-doo-DOO/ Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo…” – if this bittersweet ascending-descending vocal melody sounds familiar, that’ll be because Just The Way You Are – Memphis LK’s latest single – is a cover of a 2002 song by the Italian house group, Milky.
One of her all-time fave songs, it’s a savvy selection by Memphis LK, whose vocals are pop perfection, embodying childlike curiosity here.
Need You Now, with its alien-baby vocals, drips with a longing that’s offset by its bouncy, cymbal-heavy beat. Within Say’s crisp overall production, cymbals typically shimmer and linger.
A euphoric, piano house riff elevates this EP’s title track, a Willaris. K collab, before Prosper lures us into a basement club after-after party. During this banging closer, brass stabs – distant yet jubilant – dally with layered vocalisations, which hover like a flight of guardian angels.
Turn that bass ALL the way up! The louder the better. Now London-based, Memphis LK tours Australia this October. And we can’t wait to hear these choons blasting through subwoofers!
LABEL: DOT DASH
RELEASE: OUT NOW
