Hey, this is Clean Bandit, and these are are
5 essential tracks.
- So our first essential track is ‘Breathe’
by Blu Cantrell and Sean Paul.
I think it’s probably my favorite Sean Paul
track, which says a lot because I love them all.
- I think Breathe, it has been an inspiration
for us, in terms of the, the great collaboration,
but also, just, it really makes me wanna dance,
like as soon as it comes on.
But it’s sexy as well, and it’s just,
it’s just great.
- Yea, I think this is just such a good song
and for me it’s one of the most kind of like
the best kind of collaborations, it’s
such a good collaborative track.
I mean, Sean Paul sounds good on everything.
But just the way they work together.
The way the two vocal lines intermingle is
just so cool.
And yea, it’s just the best song in the
world basically
- Weren’t you working with one of the writers
from…
- Yea, yea Andrea  Martin, who wrote the
song, uhm, with Sean Paul, I guess.
I don’t know too much about the history
of it.
But yea we’ve been working with her a lot,
uhm, we’ve got lots of songs that we’ve
done for our new album.
- Yea, the second track in our five essential
tracks is Time Of Your Life by Green Day.
Yeah the last time I saw them
I was fifteen in the Manchester Evening News Arena
uhm with my girlfriend at the time.
She dragged me there, and I thought I was
gonna hate it, but I loved it.
And it’s one of those songs that kind of,
I think it just transcends genres and, uh,
timezones.
And it’s just a good song.
- I think it’s my favorite Green Day song
ever.
It’s kind of the most famous one, isn’t
it?
It’s just such a massive song.
- It’s a classic
- Yea, classic.
- I thought Green Day was your favorite band?
- I thought it was your favorite band!
- I loved Green Day when I was a teenager,
I was obsessed.
I had the tape.
- I’ve always overheard Jack binging his
Green Day albums from his bedroom.
So I’ve heard a lot of songs, but yea.
- Our third essential track is Clint Eastwood,
by Gorillaz.
And uhm, I chose that track because I feel
like it was one of the, it was like the first
band that used animation.
Or like, heavy, like manga cartoons for their
video.
And that had like, I thought that was a really
cool, kinda artistic statement.
- Yea the song is actually eh, Damon
Albarn and then it features Deltron, Delton 3030
and he’s. like an incredible rapper.
I thought he sounded really good.
And uh, yea, the whole way the track comes
together in the video is really, really incredible.
- We’ve actually got… there’s an unreleased
video of Luke, covering this song.
With an omni chord
- It’s the first song that I learned the
lyrics to and sang, so
- Next song on our essential list is uhm our
new single, Symphony.
Which, uhm, we hope you will all enjoy.
It’s a song about love but it’s kind of
like quite emotion and it’s got a lot of
strings and… but it was kind of a plan that
you could dance and cry to it.
And we made uhm, a very sad music video uhm
that, well it’s sad and hopeful.
- Yea, I didn’t know Zara Larsson had dedicated
the song to the victims of Manchester but,
I'm happy that she did that.
- We saw her perform at a festival in the
UK and uhm, yea she just blew us away.
Her voice is amazing, she’s so young and
she’s got this really powerful amazing popvocal.
And uhm, yea that just drew us to it.
- We’ve been touring with her in The States,
last few months and, yea, getting to know
her crew and was such, she’s just such
a nice person and yea, really great team and
yea, very happy to be, to have collaborated
with her.
- Our fifth essential track is our own song
Dust Clears, which is a less known Clean Bandit song.
But for me, this was a very special video
that we made, in Sweden, where we got to skate
around on a frozen lake a few years ago, uhm,
and it’s quite a magical kind of journey
between London and Sweden that we try and
show in the video and uhm, yea it’s worth
Yea, it's worth a watch
- Well, it was the most magnificent place
ever.
Like, I 
was searching for an outdoor ice skating location.
And originally we were gonna do it in Moscow
because the parks there in winter, they pour
water on all the paths so you can skate between
the trees.
And it was like this magical forest land.
But it was kind of spring and it was melting
a bit, so, we had to find another one.
And this lake in Sweden, it’s, it’s kind
of totally clear so it looks like glass.
And you’re skating along the top and you
can just see the bottom of the lake.
It was really one of the most beautiful places
I’ve ever been to.
- Yea, and Jack is singing on the song.
Which is nice.
- Yea
- I don’t know, yea, I don’t think I was
always gonna stay on it.
We we’re, we wrote it as a song, me and
Jimmy Napes, uhm, it’s both of us on it
kinda with singing verses together, like a
verse each.
But yea, we kinda wrote it with someone else
in mind and put heavy autotune on our voices
so that it sounded bareable.
And ended up just kinda liking the sound and
we just stayed on it.
I don't know
Probably not, maybe…
- You should!
- We’ll see
- You’ve got a nice voice!
- Yea, it sounds good, you should go back
to it.
