MAY68
"Their songs are tight and sleek disco nuggets, glamorous and totally accessible. MAY68 possess potential in spades"NME |
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 United by “the boredom of an overcast city going through the indie rock motions,” and “a common goal for things bigger, better and more colourful,” MAY68 formed with aim of being the antidote to Manchester’s musical malaise, but may just take the world too.
My Ways is their debut single, and a perfect introduction to their groove-driven, good-time electro-pop. With its call-and-response vocals shared by uber-cool singer Jude Wainwright and French-born drummer/singer Camille Bertin, it concerns a failed relationship started in a club and it's a modern disco-edged electro hit-in-waiting: fast paced and fun to dance to.
On the B-side of the 7”, The New You is space disco at its best, layered with cosmic synths, house piano, searing guitar and a bongo-beating percussion section. Completing the digital EP are the Acid Washed remix of My Ways and another track, The Duke Is Dead, remixed by Egyptian Hip Hop.
Named after an explosive month in French history some 40 years before they formed, MAY68 took inspiration from the French situationists when plotting their own revolution – to overturn the Manc music establishment in favour of the little-represented electro scene.
“Our plan was to try and unify the best elements of dance music and pop music to create something fresh, warm and exciting, that would inspire people and make them dance” they say.
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