Video: WALLA, ‘The Kids Are Alright’
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WALLA’s music springs from a seemingly inexhaustible supply of four-on-the-floor beats, candy-coated melodies and relentless optimism, all of which are on display in their new single “The Kids Are Alright.” The quintet – Ian Charlie, Alessio Balsemin, Mauricio Carcamo, Jonathan Hoonch Kim and Gabriel Nava Rodrigues – followed up EPs in 2012 and 2013 with this summer’s three-song “Gangsters of Suburbia.” Greater minds in rock ’n’ roll have made the titular claim about youth before, but the WALLA’s video, directed by Myles Lumb and Jonty Fine, has moments of doubt. Followed by, of course, moments of dancing.
||| Stream: “The Kids Are Alright”
||| Live: WALLA performs at the Viper Room on Nov. 20.
||| Previously: “Gangsters of Suburbia,” “No Time”
[…] Jonathan Kim and singer-synth player Gabriel Rodrigues, two-fifths of the electro-pop quintet WALLA, which released three EPs and, in January, the single “101” (which has racked up 10 […]