Hutch announce 2nd EP with new track ‘Pepper Kettle’
The Brighton sextet take it up a notch with their latest single.
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Hutch are back with their enigmatic and joyful new single Pepper Kettle. Fresh off the heels of their most successful single to date, January’s Mrs Sunshine, Pepper Kettle is the second song to be released from their hotly anticipated upcoming EP.
Despite being so early in their career, the Brighton-based band have already developed a knack for writing infectious dreamscapes that evoke warm summer feelings within their joyous melodies.
In much the same way that The Lemon Twigs are conjuring up a faithful homage to early 1960’s pop music, Hutch are cooking up an equivalent, equally as fun continuation from the psychedelic songs of the mid-60’s.
Pepper Kettle is breezy and bright and offers a real throwback to those trailblazing songs written by the likes of John Lennon and Brian Wilson in that era. In fact, Hutch even reference Lennon’s masterpiece A Day in the Life as an inspiration alongside a varying pool of other influences: “We definitely drew inspiration from a much greater pool of art for this. From A Day in the Life to Don't Hug Me I’m Scared and even The Wombles’ theme song.”
If you’re struggling to see where the line between psychedelic music and The Wombles’ theme tune intersects, then you need not worry because listening to Pepper Kettle makes what should seem incredulous appear joyously obvious.
It is a single that is perfect for the upcoming summer weather, and its arrival feels like the welcoming sonic greeting of springtime. Hearing it is like floating inside a dream. However, just as you get comfortable letting the effortless melodies and jangly guitars seep into your subconscious, the song transforms into a sonic hellscape of psychedelic noise.
Hutch are happy to spend the opening half of Pepper Kettle singing you into a blissful lullaby before shocking you back to your toes with the droning guitars and swirling synthesisers of the song’s mesmerising bridge.
Hutch are a band that make music to be enjoyed. It is as uplifting as it is memorable. Yet, they are also a band that are not afraid to keep you on your toes. Pepper Kettle sounds equally as welcoming and familiar as it does new, fresh and exciting. Having already found a delightful way to straddle those two extremes, anticipation couldn’t be higher for their upcoming EP that’s due to be released in June.
