Monoculture unveil comeback single ‘I’ll Do You One Better’

Hailing from Chicago, Monoculture make their defiant return to music with the release of their new single ‘I’ll Do You One Better’. Keeping up with their boundary-pushing approach to music-making, the outfit have broadened their creative horizons following a hiatus as they embellish their grooves with alluring new soundscapes.

The single sees the group take on a jazz-ed-up new front. Combining intricate time signatures with a psychedelic intensity, the group mark their new sound with an invigorating absurdity. ‘I’ll Do You One Better’ takes a tongue-in-cheek approach to pop music. Poking fun at those who have denied them opportunities as a result of their experimental tendencies, the group mimic overused pop sentiments and structures.

Speaking about the single, Faayani, the band’s frontperson, comments, “‘I'll Do You One Better’ is a facetious song poking fun at the traditional pop song structure that people have wielded against the band to deny us opportunities. So we imitated that structure and do it one better with jazz chord progressions and broad instrumentation -- all over shifting time signatures. Lyrically, the song was written as I was becoming more conscious as both a worker and as a Black person and in that time was finding how the only way we could solve our issues was to fight for them.”