Tougher, stronger and laden with exuberant new ideas, inimitable next-gen–yacht-rock six piece, CVC make a return by crash landing their orbiting vessel to earth with new single, “The Lowrider (Just About Meant To Be).” Their first new music since the release of their acclaimed 2023 debut album, Get Real, the single sweeps in on a plump bed of warm bass synth, heavy chunks of Thriller-esque guitars and Bee Gee-tight vocal harmonies to bring a slick CVC back in rude, bossing form.
Whilst stardust swirls around a gifted band flush with confidence and poised to escalate their honey-voiced, party-percolating profile, at the heart of CVC is an artistry as deep seated as any other. When it comes to “The Lowrider,” it’s still all about matters of the heart.
Co-songwriter & vocalist on the track, Dave Bassey says: “’The Lowrider’ was written after a lengthy session in our old local (The City Arms in Cardiff) about my long-distance lover and how we are ‘just about meant to be’! Then when we got home and hit the ‘bass’ setting on the synth – the rest of the song just poured out. It’s called ‘The Lowrider’ because we thought it’d be great to get Snoop Dogg involved with it at some point, cos it shares a lot of that that West Coast flavour!”
Adjourning to studios in Wiltshire to finesse bold ambitions and digitize pure magic, “The Lowrider” is the first, tangy fruit of CVC’s work with producer, Chris Hughes, famed for his work across mega-hit albums, including Tears For Fears on 1985’s pivotal Songs From The Big Chair.
Taking care of the beat, the bop and the boogie, CVC (Church Village Collective in longhand, after where they were brought up together in rural isolation) have confounded critics at the same time as causing tremors at every point of Britain’s A-To-Z, by yielding fresh crops from seasoned seeds. A band that had Dr. Dre, Hall and Oates and The Doobie Brothers doodled on their school notebooks in letters of equal height, the people they seek to please are the good timers. CVC are the band everyone wants to be with – or be in!
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