The Karma Effect have signed with Earache Records, and their new record, Promised Land, is due out May 3, 2024, Preorders are up now. The London-based band also dropped the first single from Promised Land, the aptly titled “Livin’ It Up.”
The Karma Effect meld the hip-shaking blues rock stylings of contemporaries like The Temperance Movement and Greta Van Fleet, with the keyboard sheen and melodic songwriting of classic stadium rock bands like Foreigner.
Frontman Henry Gottelier states:
“The song refers to people in power taking advantage of the everyday person and feeding off of that,” says Gottelier. “Lyrics such as, ‘They’ll be breaking your back, fill their pockets from the stack of every little bit of joy I’m owed.’ The song is about not letting ‘the man’ get you down, and having a good time regardless. During the writing process for this album, we were massively inspired by the album ‘Pump’ by Aerosmith, and loved the a cappella vocal that you hear at the end of ‘Love In An Elevator,’ so we wanted to add that in to our album somewhere—The start of ‘Livin’ It Up’ just felt right.”
The Karma Effect are currently out on a U.K. tour with These Wicked Rivers; additionally they’ll be doing a show with labelmates The Bites in Tunbridge Wells.
Photo courtesy of The Karma Effect
