Winston Surfshirt Returns with New Single ‘BOOTS’
This is Winston Surfshirt’s first new music in two years.
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After two years of silence, Winston Surfshirt is back with a bang, dropping the outrageously groovy new single ‘BOOTS’.
Featured on Zane Lowe’s New Music Daily show on Apple Music, ‘BOOTS’ is a joyous dancefloor filler with a swirling disco melody.
Produced by Winston Surfshirt and OSWRLD (Mel Blue, Sycco, Moktar) and mixed by Grammy-nominated George Nicholas (Baynk, Genesis Owusu, Mansionair), the single showcases a growth in Winston’s songwriting as the singer-songwriter, producer and rapper enters a new chapter of his musical evolution.
Speaking on the track, Winston says: “BOOTS is a party. I wrote this with a couple mates/producers OSWRLD and Beso Palma at my studio 10 months ago. We wanted something upbeat and nostalgic, and this one came up really quickly. It was done in a few hours. We put the beat together and started messing about over a loop, added some keys, bass and a pair of kids bongos.
“We wanted something sorta 00s disco, a bit Miami bassy, lyrically one of those songs that wrote itself – sometimes I’ll have a melody in my head that will stick with me until the right music presents itself and this was definitely one of those cases with the chorus – it’s like a magic to me that I can’t explain or show, like it’s only for me and when that piece or idea you have fits to something, it’s that abracadabra.”
Initially a solo project of Winston’s, the band has grown to include a close-knit unit of musicians and friends that have produced three albums, garnered over 200 million streams and led to collaborations with Channel Tres, Roy Davis Jr and George Owusu.
You can buy/stream ‘BOOTS’ here.
