Here to blast away the January blues, London hard rockers The Karma Effect today unleash their brand new single ‘See You Again’, out now on Earache Records.
Melding the hard riffs and melodies of Aerosmith with some honky-tonk piano and a hefty dose of Rival Sons swagger, ‘See You Again’ packs a hell of a punch as the band tell their party-soaked story of fleeting love at first sight.
“’See You Again’ is about meeting someone on a night out, having a wild time, then they’re just gone. It’s about falling for someone, and then they disappear out of thin air,” lead singer Henry Gottelier explains. “We really wanted to set the scene with an audio recording of one of our local bars at the start of the track: it just transports you to that situation and paints a really vivid picture. Seb is a phenomenal Hammond player and he does it incredibly well, however the piano is where he really comes to life. He nailed it on ’See You Again’ with those honky-tonk lines.”
Emerging from the UK’s vibrant hard rock scene during the pandemic, 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 song writing of classic stadium rock bands like Foreigner.
‘Promised Land’ offers 10 tracks of raw, hook-laden rock’n’roll positively gleaming with 80s shimmer. Recorded at MRC Studios and The Hive Studios with Michael Charman, the album was built on escapism from start to finish. “When we were creating the album, it felt like we had found our own bubble of utopia – nothing in the outside world mattered in those moments. That’s exactly what we want to offer anyone who takes the time to listen to the album,” the band elaborate.
Self-releasing their debut album in 2022, the band actually released that record before they’d had a chance to properly play live (due to Covid restrictions). However, they’ve been making up for lost time, playing 11 festivals in 2023 alone, including Planet Rock Radio’s Winter’s End and Steelhouse Festival, as well as enjoying sold-out headline shows across the UK and support slots with UK Top 10 artists like Massive Wagons and Scarlet Rebels, as well as transatlantic label mates The Bites, all the while refining a colossal live sound. The result being that the band captured this lightning in a bottle for the set of highly impressive songs on ‘Promised Land’.
Recently signed to legendary independent label Earache Records, the band look set to take the next steps to becoming one of the most exciting names in British Rock. With more new music to come plus a plethora of lives dates as a headliner and in supporting Bad Touch, 2024 looks set to be a huge year for The Karma Effect.
‘Promised Land’ is available to pre-order now at earache.com/thekarmaeffect on limited edition vinyl (including signed yellow vinyl), signed CD and more.
Upcoming Tour Dates
27 Jan – Leo’s Red Lion, Gravesend+
10 Feb – Love Live, Winter Gardens, Blackpool*
16 Feb – KKs Steel Mill, Wolverhampton^
17 Feb – Guildhall, Gloucester^ 23 Feb – The Bullingdon, Oxford^
24 Feb – The Sound House, Leicester+
25 Feb – Engine Rooms, Southampton^
03 Mar – Legends Of Rock, Vauxhall Holiday Park, Gt Yarmouth*
08 Mar – Academy 3, Manchester^
09 Mar – The Loft @ The Arts Club, Liverpool^
10 Mar – Corporation, Sheffield^
15 Mar – The Live Rooms, Chester^
16 Mar – Nightrain, Bradford^
22 Mar – Northumbria Uni, Newcastle^
23 Mar – King Tuts, Glasgow^
29 Mar – The Junction 2, Cambridge^
30 Mar – Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff^
05 Apr – The Waterfront, Norwich^
06 Apr – Rescue Rooms, Nottingham^
07 Apr – O2 Islington Academy 2, London^
13 Apr – Patterns, Brighton^
19 Apr – The Black Prince, Northampton+
30 Jun – Wildfire Festival, Wanlockhead*
09 Aug – FireVolt Festival, Stockport*
10 Aug – NozFest, The 1865, Southampton*
25 Aug – Rockwich Festival, Witton Albion Social, Northwich*
