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Melt
Yourself Down takes its musical interests from a diverse range of countries and cultures and has built a unique style, drawing from Egyptian and Nubian music, punk rock, jazz, psychedelic rock, electronica, funk and more. Wareham has described the style as "Nubian inspired party-punk music". In
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has stated that he contacted Chance with a request to use the name and received "his blessing" for the project. Melt
Yourself Down subsequently performed with James Chance at shows in New York and London in 2014. Wareham and Chance had previously collaborated when Chance performed on a track from
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Acoustic Ladyland, bandleader Pete Wareham began exploring Egyptian, Nubian and other North African music. In an interview with M Magazine, Wareham explains that he included some of this music in a DJ set he was performing, and seeing the positive reaction from the crowd,
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decided to write and perform music in this style. He assembled the band from musicians he had worked with in various projects and collaborations, initially intending it to be an instrumental line-up. Vocalist Kushal Gaya was added to the group shortly after the initial rehearsals.
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wrote that "the compositions are more complex, the music tighter and everything has an immediacy that was missing before...Last
Evenings on Earth is as vast and sprawling as their self-titled debut, yet at the same time it’s concise and refined". In August 2016,
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a later interview he added "The need to dance is still there but now I’m feeling inspired by the idea of the city as a prism through which all kinds of global influences pass...Translation, immigration, overcoming obstacles - and most of all, human unity."
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Following the release of further singles "It Is What It Is", "Every Single Day", and "Crocodile", the band released "100% Yes" on 27 March 2020, which was planned to be followed by a national tour which was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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