New Music – Johnny Hunter | Master Peace

Johnny Hunter – Hot Mess

Impressed by their new take on post-punk (and that’s no mean feat at this point), we caught up with Johnny Hunter earlier this year soon after their relocation from Australia to the UK. Great to see their latest offering again following a different bend in the road, as they veer into a heady mix of industrial dance music. The track was recorded before the move, above Sydney pub, The Lord Gladstone Hotel.

Lead singer Nick Hutt explains, “Whenever we needed to go to the bathroom or for a smoke we had to push through crowds of people on their night out, from people hooking up to crying with their friends outside, to pairs of people coming out of cubicles so every time we were in the studio on the weekend we’d be flies on the wall for (and sometimes part of) this exhibition of what we could only describe as hot mess behaviour. We literally recorded the vocals whilst a massive D’n’B party played downstairs, I’m 95% sure that if you solo the raw stems of the vocal you can hear it in the background. This is the essence of the song, the whole feel, the drums, the lyrics, the mood all of it attested to recording music in the pub”.

Johnny Hunter

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Master Peace – Save Me

Offering the latest insight into his pending EP, Master Peace has shared new track Save Me, maintaining his infectious indie-dance sound. Each release seems to be more polished, more thought-out and more likely to lead to wider success. Check it out below.

Master Peace says of the song, “Save Me is about finally moving on in a relationship, and meeting someone new instantly and thinking these can take the pain away or replace that thing that you’ve lost, it started off as a garage record but we wanted to make it more of a Justice / Prodigy record, keep it in the vain of indie sleaze and dance music, the juxtaposition between the verses and the hook on the song is a real stand out moment and I feel it shows my vocal delivery in its best light”.