Young Gun Silver Fox doesn’t mess around when rekindling the soft rock west coast sound we all adore, and you are lying if you don’t. While yacht rock is the most accessible term, their latest track “Rolling Back” is one that oozes in palm trees and all things eight-track flashback.
The band’s co-founders and visionaries Andy Platts and Shawn Lee have been honing a lifetime of smooth sounds via their accomplished musical careers, Andy’s career as a world-renowned composer and singer/songwriter/guitarist with British soul sensations Mamas Gun or through Shawn’s esteemed work as a producer, multi-instrumentalist and composer which has placed him at the forefront of the global soul and funk community.
The duo’s fourth studio album, Ticket To Shangri La showcases a band at the very top of their game, fine-tuning their potent brew of sun-kissed pop-soul, west coast AOR and natural groove with a skill for composition and production that sees them forging ahead down a musical highway blessed with blue skies and positive vibrations. For both participants, the chance to make a new record together is always a liberating experience, as Andy explains; “I always come back to Young Gun Silver Fox like taking a drive to the coast and I just smell the ocean and the air and it’s like ‘wicked I’m back here again’ and I can just kick back and enjoy it.”
Glide is premiering the song and video for “Rolling Back” a dead ringer for the sounds of yesteryear, while honing to nods of chillwave that play alongside the helium harmonies and tight AF rhythmic flair that recalls Steely Dan Gacho era.
Andy Platts has this to say about video..
“Director George Moore (who has to date created nearly all of our music videos) and animation supremo Joseph Daly took the title “Rolling Back” and disappeared down a creative rabbit hole that saw them create an aesthetic which brings together elements of Vaporwave and old school bowling alley score-screen style animation. With just the right amount of added silliness and fun from myself and Shawn, I think we have achieved a fantastically nostalgic and immersive music video that pairs with the song brilliantly. Definitely one of our favourite YGSF videos so far, goes for the song too!”
This song has themes which revolve around the tension that envy and missed chances in life bring, but that ultimately love and unity overrules everything.
Musically in my head I was a trying to fuse the soul and boogieness of Off The Wall era MJ with a new wave-ish 80s British pop sensibility.
Put through the YGSF sunshine West Coast filter you get something made to live on the radio…in any decade 😉
Shawn Lee adds
The inspiration for this song came about after I had a short conversation with Andy in Manchester about the Leon Sylvers III productions for Solar Records in the early 80’s. Things, The Whispers & Shalamar. I think this kind of Boogie vibe found it’s way into our sound and created a monster of a song!
