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Callum Sutton offers timeless grit and gospel groove on “Give You Something”
Emerging from the shadows of the underground with a sound that feels effortlessly timeless, Callum Sutton delivers a knockout punch with “Give You Something,” his electrifying new single from the forthcoming album The Union. Stylish, stirring, and spiritually rich, this track is a defining moment for Sutton—proof that authenticity and artistry can still turn heads in an increasingly algorithm-driven music landscape.
The song kicks off with a laid-back confidence, slowly layering shimmering guitars, rich organ tones, and gospel harmonies into a groove that feels both vintage and fresh. Sutton’s lead vocal cuts through the mix with charisma and clarity, alternating between tender introspection and explosive soul cries. His James Brown-inspired shouts in the latter half feel like a rallying call—passionate, raw, and completely unfiltered.
There’s something fashionably unpolished about the production—it breathes, it pulses, it lets the imperfections sing. Recorded at Unity Sound Studios with Sutton himself on vocals, guitar, and harmonica, the track captures a DIY ethos with major-label polish. The extended outro is where things really take flight, as if the track itself is refusing to let go—Hammond B3 soaring, harmonies looping like a mantra, rhythm section locked in like a trance.
But beyond the musicianship, “Give You Something” is ultimately about connection. Sutton isn’t just performing for an audience—he’s reaching for communion. It’s the sound of an artist grappling with where he’s been and where he’s going, letting the listener ride shotgun on the journey. The lyrics, though rooted in personal reflection, carry a universality that hits home.
In a crowded field of one-note singles and instant-gratification hooks, “Give You Something” feels like a breath of fresh, smoky air. Callum Sutton has style, soul, and a voice that sticks—and if this single is anything to go by, The Union is going to be one of the most magnetic and musically rich releases of the year.
Michele Ducci has unveiled the second single, ‘Woman Like You’, from his forthcoming album and animated film ‘Snail in the Clouds’.
‘Woman Like You’ pairs bright distorted electric guitar with an electronic drumbeat, adding in Ducci’s soulful vocals and a catchy uplifting chorus with Letizia Mandoleisi’s sweet vocal harmonies. A vintage organ pedalboard operated by Ducci simultaneously generates chords, bass and rhythm, like a one-man band. Shane Kennedy (Girl in the Year Above) joins in on guitar. Simon Milner (Is Tropical, Ysing) recorded and produced the track at his 4am Studios in London.
The album and film tell the story of a planet called ‘Snail’, inhabited by hybrids – primarily a mixture between scorpions, snails and humans – who lead a life according to the style of Pythagoras, devoted to music. There is also a cloud man named Agostos, a writer of musical operettas, who together with a talking smoke machine called Doctor Subtilis, begins to kill all hybrids, targeting in particular the hybrid musician Diodoros and his band, in an effort to steal the ark of melodies, an ancient ship that allows the whole planet to survive with music and joy.
The video for the single, created and animated by Ducci and Mandoleisi, delves further into the realm of planet ‘Snail’:
Says Ducci, “The ark of melodies, after various attempts, finally starts to work and fly in the planet Snail, while the shady Doc. Sub. and Agostos, with their platoon of soldiers made of foggy smoke, spy the miracle, planning to steal the ark for their evil and tyrannical purposes.”
About the track, Michele says, “I wrote this song for my love Letizia. Love seen from the mind is the sound we make. Sound is the love of matter.
We used a Technics synthesizer organ from a flea market. I tried to find a mood that was right for the song and I started using the bass of the pedal board together with the synth and the drums, and it was magical to hear the song reveal itself all coming from a single instrument. Leti was singing with me and we recorded everything live in one shot. Then we made Shane do the guitar flight, as if he came out of the window. The idea was to maintain disproportions, guitar thrust and synth drum thinness a la Haroumi Hosono, so as to create an estrangement, but naturally: it’s about how I listen, with close up something that captures me in its nuance as element of a larger orchestra somewhere. I’m glad we decided in the studio with Simon to use the layers of arrangement as the close-ups in the cinema; they look like strange enlargements that perch on parts of a mutated orchestra. I’m happy to come back with this love song at a time when everything seems to opt, even my labor in managing the flows of selfishness that have poured out on me while doing this album, for the sound of war. I’m here happy to be able to say that the sound of love always wins as did for me. Snail in the clouds is one of the most important works in my life and I am glad to start from pure love for this album that is my son.”
The album and full-length film will be released on the 5th of June on Monotreme Records.
Michele and Letizia’s previous musical short film, ‘The Great Book of Nature’, is an official selection for the 2026 Venice Shorts Film Festival.
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