The Magic Gang - How Can I Compete

Why can’t all working relationships be this ideal? Like a concept ripped straight from our indie wet dreams, Brighton babes The Magic Gang have enlisted The Maccabees’ Hugo White on production duties for their as-yet-untitled forthcoming EP - which will then be released through Maccabro Felix’s new label Yala! Records.

A true passing on of the baton, you’ll all agree.

Now, the band have debuted ‘How Can I Compete?’, the first offering from the record, and guess what? It’s pretty much bloody perfect.

Taking the jaunty bounce of early single ‘Jasmine’, it kicks off with the kind of peppy bassline that could easily be an earworm chorus in itself, before getting to the actual chorus - which is obviously a monster. With singer Jack Kaye lamenting a love rival, it’s a big ‘ol arms-round-yer-mate moment that’ll have anyone who’s ever felt the familiar pang of romantic despair (so that’s everyone, then) wailing along at full pitch.

What a dream team.