Cooler Weather Ahead

After impressing the musos in London and New York for the past few years, our forgotten homespun talent Daniel Merriweather is on the verge of becoming the coolest dude on the planet. The padawan learner of Mr.Mark Ronson who helped him hit the Top 10 last year with the souled out version of The Smiths's Stop Me (if you've heard this one before), Daniel is now about to release his debut solo album Love & War.

Earning his scout badges on the road for the last 18 months with Ronson and The Dap-Kings, which saw him return to our shows last December briefly on the haunted Global Gathering tour, Daniel returned to the studio early this year to put the final touches on what is tipped to be the debut record of the year. Speaking of his influence of The Dap-Kings and their even dapper frontman, Daniel admits, "I brought them a whole bunch of songs that they wouldn’t naturally play on and their amazing musicianship really helped those songs evolve..."

Fusing funk and soul with his natural pop sensibility, Love & War, which is on Ronson's own Allido label, features a collaboration with Adele, Water and a Flame and the first single Change, which is already getting heavy rotation on Triple J. Release date is May 25th in the U.K and hopefully we'll be getting one close to that because this guy is going to be cooler than The Simpsons in 1994.

P.S - keep your ear out for two classic covers:
Golden Skans - Klaxons
You Don’t Know What Love Is - The White Stripes