LISTEN: Banji - 'IN MOTION'

I've really not been keeping up to date with new music lately... birdsong, audiobooks and musical soundtracks (Operation Mincemeat mostly, at the moment) are all competing for my attention, and new releases aren't getting too much of a look in. I was listening to a playlist of lots of music I've enjoyed over the past few years on my commute this week and was reminded of my love for Banji. They're a Dutch band who I've been listening to since 2020(!) when I shared Listen here (and called it a 'juicy ear-worm' - I wasn't wrong). They released their debut album Freshcakes in 2022. 

I haven't really thought about them much lately but Listen and TalkieWalkie came on shuffle recently and I was reminded how great they are. Imagine my delight when I open up my laptop and find that they've just released their first new music in three years in the shape of new song IN MOTION. 

Sharing the news to Instagram, the band wrote: "this song is about the feeling that you’re constantly supposed to be getting somewhere. stuck in a world that tells you to keep moving. finding a job, finding a house, making money, figuring your life out. what i’ve been doing these past years. eventually I realized i was measuring my life against standards that didn’t even belong to me. and that moving at your own pace is still movement."

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