Continuing to lean into their unique retro-soul soundscape, Bonneville are back with their latest single ‘Fools In The Game’, a slow-burning blues ode to the game of life, and the pursuit of love. The single cuts through with an easy confidence and arrives brimming with melody, authenticity and maturity.
Recording the single at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals with the Grammy award-winning producer Starita, the track kicks off with rich guitar licks, spilling a pure, cinematic vibrance across the airwaves. As bold vocals soon take centre stage, ‘Fools In The Game’ takes its time in building an atmosphere, balancing silky instrumentation with a masterful finesse.
The band’s second release of the year, the US-based outfit looks to once again double down on their thrilling approach to retro musicmaking, proving that the old school can still feel like the new school.
Speaking about the release, the band discuss their creative influences, and the significant points of influence that they tried to emulate in the recording. Diving in, they explain, “[The single] took on a new life when the groove was born the first time all of the band members were in the room… [we] had been listening to a lot of Thee Sacred Souls and wanted that feel… It ended up landing outside of that, with a more straightforward bass groove and what feels to me like a late 1970s sound, similar to Andy Gibb’s ‘I Just Want to Be Your Everything.’”