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Masters of the blues groove Velvet Trip return with their racey second single ‘Hurricane’.

Having dropped ‘Take Control’ – the first taste from their debut EP Velvet Trip & The Six Moon Skies – a couple of months back, Sydney four-piece Velvet Trip have today returned with a brand new single that showcases yet another layer to their raw, energetic, and highly improvised sound.

‘Hurricane’ melds classical blues with 60’s pop stylings of acts like The Zombies and The Turtles, and if you close your eyes you can envisage the group suited up and performing it live at Midnight Special. Frontman Zeppelin Hamilton’s vocals soar on the Hendrix-inspired track, with the rest of the band holding the relentless groove behind him with deft precision.

“We actually wrote the song pretty much on the spot, then recorded it third take,” Hamilton explains. “We had some spare time and I had some lyrics floating around. It was completely spontaneous.”

Velvet Trip will be playing at Parcel’s sold out show at The Metro this Saturday, so if you’ve got a ticket make sure you get there early. And you can catch them launching ‘Hurricane’ with local shredders Briezers and Byron Bay’s Flying Machine at Waywards January 29th (event here).

Velvet Trip & The Six Moon Skies will be out early 2019.