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SUMMARY:The Karma Effect
LOCATION:Corporation
DESCRIPTION:When The Karma Effect was quietly born in the pandemic\, vocali
 st Henry Gottelier could hear in his head how he wanted the project to sou
 nd. From the organic rootsy debut\, followed by the show-stopping Promised
  Land\, they now truly arrive with their third record. This is the album h
 e dreamed of making: the most complete\, crystal-clear realisation of thei
 r ambitions yet. It’s leaner\, louder\, heavier\, blazing with determina
 tion\, and joyously larger-than-life. Although some line-up changes occurr
 ed in the background (which sees Nathan Keevil join them on bass\, Alan Ta
 ylor on drums\, and Tom Pitt on keys)\, a turn of events that could have l
 eft them on shaky ground has instead been spun into a silver lining. Brimm
 ing with energy and fresh perspectives\, the newly assembled line-up conve
 ned at The Hive Rooms\, in the locale of Gatwick Airport\, to nail down wh
 at would become ‘Cruel Intentions’ in July 2025. “We holed up in the
 re\, locked the doors and didn’t come out for a month\,” Henry jests. 
 “I didn’t see the sun that summer at all.” He had brought his new co
 lleagues sketches of the album’s songs\, and although their backbones la
 rgely remained as he had written them\, they were sculpted by the hands of
  everyone in the band\, making it\, first and foremost\, a collaborative e
 ffort capturing shards of everyone’s style and personality. There are di
 fferent shades to their sound on this outing. Henry’s songwriting leans 
 towards the observational more than the personal. This time\, there’s a 
 dark passion coursing through these songs\, preoccupied with notions of lo
 ve\, lust and the thrumming sense of danger in both. Take the swaggering 
 ‘Dangerous Love’ – “It’s about doing things you shouldn’t do\,
  but you can’t stop yourself: passion overtaking your senses and your mi
 nd getting away from you.” The title track\, meanwhile\, is about a stal
 ker. It’s not entirely steeped in darkness\, however – sometimes\, the
 re are flashes of cheekiness. ‘Better Luck Next Time’\, for example\, 
 is a tongue-in-cheek meditation on feeling the sharp end of sod’s law\, 
 following someone’s day as it spirals into the stuff of farce. “We don
 ’t take ourselves too seriously\,” Henry reasons. “We know what we a
 re in terms of the kind of music we play.” Henry terms the band’s modu
 s operandi “modern vintage”\, a desire to polish up the retro sounds t
 hey were raised on into a gleaming\, modern product instead of trying to r
 ehash or recycle them\, and certainly without falling into the trap of pas
 tiche. Regardless\, their sights are set higher\, and in possession of wha
 t they believe are their strongest songs yet\, they’re hungrier to chase
  their goals than ever. “We want to be a stadium rock band\,” he asser
 ts. “The way I've always written music and performed is with the objecti
 ve of: ‘How can we take what we do to this club full of people and make 
 them feel like they're watching something in a giant stadium in New Jersey
 \, or something like that. I want them to feel like the band that they're 
 seeing is not just putting on a gig. They're putting on a massive show.”
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