From a basement studio in Hackney, East London comes Payfone’s

second release on Golf Channel, the darkly smooth Quarantine backed with the South American flavoured Padre, Pray For Us.

Following on from 2014’s extremely well received Paradise heater, a track that NME described as “a rich, dubby slice of funk”, Payfone continue down a similar path for their new A side Quarantine.

Once again featuring 24 year old vocal powerhouse Louis Howard Jones, Lead track Quarantine is a semi autobiographical take on the hardships of an underprivileged youth, set against a tough drum machine production that sounds more New York City 1984 than New Port County 2004 (Jones was born and raised in Cardiff, Wales, UK ). Cruising at 120 BPM, the dark electronic rain drops and funk guitar intro gives way to some heavy slap bass action and deep synth bass that nods some way towards Michael Jackson’s Thriller before the brutal vocals of Louis Howard Jones hit you right between the eyes with power lyrics such as ‘ Born to be supreme, Raising Hell like Kerosene’

B side, Padre, Pray For Us is a bizarre Afro-Cuban inspired homage to Phil Passera’s father Sergio (who can be heard on the telephone singing praise for American / Sicilian showboat Louis Prima). Featuring the dynamic trumpet tones of former Cuban military private Eikel Venegas Hernandez, this 8 minute instrumental takes you to the Piñata Party via downtown Lagos.