"Smalltown Boy" Bronski Beat & The Knocks ft Perfume Genius

Wednesday 4th September 2024

Release date: 04/09/2024 Label: London Records

Across the past decade Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum selling NYC dance luminaries The Knocks have excelled with thoughtful collaborations, ranging from indie to pop and everything in-between. Here, The Knocks visit this year’s viral sensation track, Bronski Beat’s enduring LGBTQIA+ anthem ‘Smalltown Boy’, adding layers of warm electronics to the original master tapes and enlisting new guest vocals from fellow Grammy-nominee Perfume Genius (aka Mike Hadreas), whose sensitive take interlaces perfectly with Jimmy Somerville’s original 1984 vocal, making for a driven update that is danceable and emotional in equal parts. This new version of ‘Smalltown Boy’ features on the remastered and expanded 40th Anniversary editions of ‘The Age Of Consent’, set for release October 18th.

Craig & Scott

Posted by Craig Jones