The UK trio flips the switch on their Insomniac Records label debut with a tantalizing house number, ‘The Lights,’ featuring an irresistible vocal from Indira May.
Brimming with their knocking rhythmic persuasions, the single finds Jaded tempting fate via a frisky groove that translates on the dancefloor just as much as in the privacy of your own home.
In what increasingly seems like another lifetime ago—a time when nightfall brought with it a revolving door of options to turn the world into your own personal playground—there was a certain magic that would come to life in surrendering to the unexpected. Jaded channels that carpe noctem energy on their latest club construction, “The Lights.” Built around the idea of “walking into the unknown and leaving yourself vulnerable to whatever the night may have in store,” the three-man outfit flirts with the promise surrounding spontaneity.
Enlisting the lush lungs of London-based singer Indira May, the boys take her careful crooning as an open invitation to dim the lights and let destiny runs its course. Setting the mood with a thudding kick bubbling beneath May’s deliberate cadence, the track simmers with an intoxicating tension until it’s time to get down to business. Practicing patience pays off once the rollicking groove come into play, erupting into a gratifying amalgamation of luminous synth riffs, punchy rave stabs, blocky percussive hits, throbbing basslines, and looped hook appealing to the most carnal of urges. “The Lights” is an audacious house anthem that should compel every last late-night reveler to seize the moment like it’s their last.
Jaded is the brain trust between its founding members and close friends Nari, Jordan and Teo. Before bonding over a mutual affinity for the vibrant underground scene from their storied stomping grounds, the group grew more and more disillusioned from some of the pop-leaning projects they were begrudgingly going through the motions for until realizing an exit strategy through house music. It didn’t take long for their dancefloor-focused sound to move out from the local circuit and into global spotlight, eventually earning the stamp of approval from frequent supporters from the likes of Diplo, Jax Jones, Oliver Heldens, Fatboy Slim, and the list goes on. While the name Jaded might call to mind feelings of over exhaustion, only the opposite can be said about the forward-facing releases they continue to rep on behalf of the cultural connections that brought them together in the first place.
