Nukuluk - I Just Wanna Luv U
South London experimental hip-hop collective Nukuluk announce their sophomore EP ‘SUPERGLUE’ (out 21 April) alongside the release of their new track ‘I Just Wanna Luv U’. The latest single is accompanied by the official video and out now on all streaming platforms. The band are also set to play their only London headline show this year at Corsica Studios, 23 May, celebrating the release of the EP accompanied by some special guests.
Curating their own unique sound and captivating crowds with their refreshing approach to hip-hop, electronica and indie, the multi-hyphenate collective return with their new EP ‘SUPERGLUE’ on 21 April. The writing and recording process has never been executed in a conventional style for the group, a series of laptops and bedrooms manifesting the groups’ studio, aspiring to a fundamentally collaborative process as they piece their separate parts together in ever surprising ways. Respective members lead through a variety of formats, bringing a demo, a motif or concept in what can be a deeply stimulating process, ensuring the sound is ever-evolving. The EP acted as an educational vehicle that held the group together as they learned how to overcome certain challenges, and hold it together as one, hence the title SUPERGLUE. It presents a fractured journey and chaotic growth of five individuals trying to create the new together; honest vulnerable expression married with complex soundscapes, pulling from whatever genre feels natural and trying new combinations of internal collaborations in the group. The release spans genres from hip-hop to alternative rock, ambient to metal, dance music to r’n’b in what the band note as: “a kaleidoscope of sonics, songs, beats, noises and stories lurching between vulnerability and bravado, as a body of work growing in all directions at the same time.”
Their latest single ‘I Just Wanna Luv U’, the follow up to the high octane ‘Covered In Gold’, marks a charged change of pace; an introspective, meditative trip-hop piece, with creeping synths, electronic drums and gruff vocals transitioning into acoustic guitars, live drums and rap verses. It tells the story of wrestling with childhood trauma, isolation and self-acceptance. Vocalist/producer Syd Nuku explores an eerie modern condition before conversing with an inner child’s trauma and memory - “be slow kid, go and take a place below the ceiling where it won’t fall”. The accompanying video was co-directed by Luke Kulukundis (Syd Nuku) and Iso Attrill, and takes reference from the likes of Michel Gondry, Charlie Kaufman and David Lynch. Syd lies awake in an eerie, darkened room, pacing back and forth and staring at a crack in a ceiling, before the discovery of a tin can telephone transports him to a mis-proportioned child’s bedroom universe.