Running Loving Something is a collaboration between Brighton-based artists Benjamin Gordon and Murray Stockdale. Coming from hip-hop and electronic backgrounds, they’ve experimented with a sampling based approach, utilising found sounds and instrumental recordings to create a sound inspired by artists such as The Avalanches.
The first track, “I Love The Feeling” came around organically “when we were playing around with sounds, not overthinking it” Benjamin explains. “We recorded the ‘I love the feeling’ adlib, pitched it up and it was right first time”, a spontaneity mirrored in the carefree, catchy vocals that reel the listener in at the start of the song and progress into a groovy bassline. “Come So Far” serves as a reassuring love note to your younger self or partner, spawning from a time with “a lot of darkness and trouble in the world”, the pair add. The lyrics sung by local singer Ellie Ford aim to uplift and transcend hard times. Artist Chris Millard, captures this freedom through the design, with the astronaut flying from Earth through space as though “free of all of the troubles of being human”, Benjamin adds.
It’s an interesting sound that begins with what sounds like an ice cream van, and quickly opens up into a song with a funky backbone, soul sensibilities and a dancefloor vibe…
