
London, United Kingdom
From a basement studio in East London, comes Phil Passera and Chieka Ononye's second release on Golf Channel as PAYFONE , The darkly smooth A side Quarantine is backed on the flip side with the South American flavoured Padre, Pray For Us.
Following on from 2014’s extremely well received Paradise, a track that NME described as “a rich, dubby slice of funk”, PAYFONE continue with a similar theme for their new A side Quarantine.
Once again featuring 24 year old vocal powerhouse Louis Howard Jones, lead track Quarantine is a semi autobiographical take on the hardships of an underprivileged youth, set against a tough drum machine production that sounds more New York City than New Port County (Jones was born and raised in Wales, UK ). Cruising at a steady 120 BPM, the dark electronic rain drops and funk guitar intro gives way to some heavy slap bass action and deep synth bass that nods some way towards Michael Jackson’s Thriller before the brutal vocals of Louis Howard Jones.