LISTEN TO “TAKE WHAT’S GIVEN” HERE
GRAMMY Nomination For Best Remixed Recording
Tuesday, January 30, 2024 – Canadian ensemble BADBADNOTGOOD return to release a new single “Take What’s Given,” featuring emerging Houston vocalist reggie; out now digitally on XL Recordings with a limited edition 7” available for pre-order here, available March 22. Recorded in Los Angeles at Valentine Studios, across multiple sessions in 2023, “Take What’s Given” is a country inspired track that radiates at the point in which reggie’s soulful vocal performance and BADBADNOTGOOD’s funk inspired, horn-tinged arrangements intersect. BADBADNOTGOOD speak more on the latest single here below. Listen to “Take What’s Given” here.
“We were doing a couple sessions around the time of Coachella 2022 and ended up having reggie by the studio. We were struck by his unique artistry and energy, and he played us some of his unreleased music that was just amazing. The groove for “Take What’s Given” came together while we were messing around during setup, and we were just having fun with it until reggie started freestyling what became the lyrics. It quickly became an infectious song and we ended up laying it down within a couple takes. Stylistically it’s super different than anything we’ve put out before but we had such a fun time playing it and it was stuck in our heads for a year while we worked on other stuff.”
Since the release of their late-2021 acclaimed album Talk Memory, BADBADNOTGOOD has been steady at work on various collaborations and touring the global festival circuit. The alt-jazz ensemble also received their fifth GRAMMY nomination, this time for Best Remixed Recording for their remix of Turnstile’s “Alien Love Call,” taken from the New Heart Designs EP.
This latest release from BADBADNOTGOOD follows a string of one-off singles with collaborators including Charlotte Day Wilson on “Sleeper,” 1999 WRITE THE FUTURE, Westside Gunn plus Conway The Machine on “MiNt cHoCoLaTe” and Jonah Yano on “the ordinary is ordinary because it ordinarily repeats.” Further, BADBADNOTGOOD contributed to Daniel Caesar’s 2023 album Never Enough and worked with rising artist Elmiene on an edit of his single “Marking My Time.”
BADBADNOTGOOD are set to return to the live stage in 2024, having already confirmed appearances at Cross The Tracks Festival (London), Primavera Sound (Barcelona), Bonnaroo (U.S.A.) and a headline performance at Istanbul’s Zorlu Performing Arts Center. Tickets here. They are also back in the studio working on more BADBADNOTGOOD music, stay tuned for more this year.
BADBADNOTGOOD 2024 Live Dates:
Sun., May 26 – London, UK @ Cross The Tracks Festival
Fri.,May 31 – Barcelona, ES @ Primavera Sound
Wed., June 5 – Istanbul, Turkey @ Zorlu Performing Arts Centre
Sat., June 15 – Manchester, TN @ Great Stage Park
Streaming now:
Badbadnotgood “Take What’s Given”
Limited Edition 7” tracklist:
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1. Badbadnotgood “Take What’s Given”
2. Badbadnotgood “Take What’s Given (Instrumental)”
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Canadian ensemble BADBADNOTGOOD made their name by crossing genres. This seamless movement between styles hit hard when they took hip hop into jazz and vice versa. The band formed in 2010, moving between three and four members before establishing its current line up in 2015. The band, aka Alexander Sowinski (drums), Chester Hansen (bass) and Leland Whitty (guitar and woodwinds), met on the Humber College jazz program in Toronto. At the time, instead of working with traditional jazz standards, the group sidestepped and drew from hip hop and other contemporary genres to create a unique sound. They developed their instrumentation across two self-titled albums, the 2014 ‘III’ and critically acclaimed 2016 album ‘IV’. Outside of the own project, BADBADNOTGOOD have collaborated with a global-roster of artists across hip-hop, dance, and neo-soul including Ghostface Killah, Kaytranada, Little Dragon, and Kendrick Lamar. In 2021 they debuted on XL Recordings with their fifth studio album, Talk Memory. Inspired by their live performances, Talk Memory was released to critical acclaim and included contributions from a breadth of multi-instrumentalists including Arthur Verocai, Laraaji, Terrace Martin, Brandee Younger, and Karriem Riggins, with the album mix coming from Russell Elevado.
