CLEAN BANDIT COVER HUNGER MAGAZINE

Grammy-Award winning trio Clean Bandit have been unveiled as the latest cover of Hunger Magazine ahead of the release of their explosive new single “Tell Me Where U Go” with Tiësto and Leony, out now. Read Hunger Magazine’s full interview with Grace Chatto of Clean Bandit here.

On the different roles within Clean Bandit:

“Jack is a chord and melody maestro composer and incredible producer. I executive produce the records and produce with Jack, and I produce or co-direct the music videos. I also write the odd lyrical concept but we usually collaborate with singers or top-line writers on our songs and focus on the ‘music’. Jack is also a fantastic director and cinematographer and film editor — making music videos has always been just as important to us as the actual songs, and, in fact, we spend at least half of our time creating these.”

““Cry Baby” was our re-entry to filmmaking and it was the most epic film project we’ve ever done. Luke is an amazing drummer and works a lot on the live creation of sounds. He is also a great producer and DJ and remixer, as well as the most brilliant film editor and certified drone pilot. So we all have quite specific roles in both the music making and the filmmaking, but of course we overlap a lot and co-create in varying ways.”

On their creative process and music to come:

“I wouldn’t say there’s anything strategic in the mixing of musical styles that we are obsessed with – we have always been randomly juxtaposing different sound worlds in a (hopefully) pleasing way. We found ourselves in Miami at the start of last year, which was supposed to be a holiday with Jack’s girlfriend, but, like, wherever we go, we couldn’t help going to a studio for a bit. This escalated, and we ended up staying for a month and made about twenty songs with artists from all over South America. It was insane. Maybe the best month of my life. So far, two songs have come out, one with the major Colombian band Piso 21 and young genius Jhosy, and one with the wild Puerto Rican rapper Darrell. These sessions were so exciting and I absolutely love both songs. We aim to release the rest of the songs this year.”

On maintaining artistic integrity in an era of algorithm-driven playlists and TikTok-length attention spans:

“We are of the YouTube generation. But we love making short, tiny films also. For us, the battle for maintaining artistic integrity has been more when songs become hits — it can be challenging to hear one’s own voice after that because there are then a lot of people with a lot of opinions.”

Clean Bandit will release “Tell Me Where U Go” with Tiësto and Leony – pre-save here. 

 

Magazine credits

Photographer – Jordan Rossi

Writer – Amber Rawlings

Producer – Abby Rothwell

Fashion & Beauty Director – Marco Antonio

Stylist – Doug Broad

Makeup Artist – Elaine Lynskey

Hair Stylist – Narad Kutowaroo

Manicurist – Ruchelle Scott

Photographer’s Assistants – Sam Lort, Derrick Kakembo