Released earlier this month, South Coast rockers The Vanns current single is the laidback, spacious sounding jam 'Feels Good Now', which erupts into a full-blown rock out at the end.
A song recorded during sessions with Chris Collins (Gang Of Youths, Ruby Fields) at The Music Farm in Byron Bay (which also netted the group their previous 2021 single 'Red Light', which has been streamed 400k-plus times on Spotify), 'Feels Good Now' is about coming to terms with life-altering decisions that make your life better."The song was originally meant to finish with a fade out, but we were having too much fun playing it for it to end so soon," lead guitarist Cameron Little says.
"We wrote (and I use that term loosely) the jam at the end of the song at the last minute, before we got in the studio and tracked it.
"Thematically, 'Feels Good Now' is about taking a risk on something that you feel needs to change in your life despite any anxieties, apprehensions, and reasons why you tell yourself you shouldn't; and actually pulling it off and feeling all the better for it.
"It's a good feeling, hence the title; we can't bloody wait to play this one live!"
For the song's music video, the band once again teamed with their tour manager and best mate Jules Bourne, as well as DP Surfboards and videographer Sam Tolhurst.
"As we have been in lockdown for a bunch of weeks now and unable to get together as a band it was proving impossible to get a film clip together for 'Feels Good Now'," frontman Jimmy Vann says.
"I wanted to collab with a local business and show support in any way we could in these uncertain times and my local surf shop, DP Surfboards, were more than keen to help us out with some epic footage for the clip.
"The footage was from all around the world and from some epic local spots.
"Support your local! Go check out DP Surfboards and keep an eye out for Sam's film 'Pyrophytic', which he is working on with local surfer Brett Connellan."
Here, Cameron keeps with the themes of 'Feels Good Now' by selecting the five songs that make him feel good whenever he hears them.
Billy Ray Cyrus - 'Achy Breaky Heart'
Written by Don Von Tress, it's the song we all either love or hate. I tend to lean towards the former. Hate it or love it, we all know it, and therefor have to live with it, so we may as well grab our pants by the belt with both hands and boot-scoot along to this two-chord anthem.Also, the lyrics and theme of the song are pretty unique. Something along the lines of "you can tell anybody and anything about how much you despise me, but please, for the love of god; don't tell my heart!"
John Mayer - 'Til The Right One Comes'
Taken from John Mayer's latest album 'Sob Rock', this jaunty number lives towards the back-end of the record.I've always known Mayer was a huge Paul Simon fan, so it's nice to have him put a song out that really has a Simon-esque vibe to it. Even the lyrics are written in a similar parlance: "As if I woke up lonely one morning / looked around and decided I would stay that way." Right on, John.
Kathleen Edwards - 'A Soft Place To Land'
This song is so beautiful. Although it is incredibly sad and won't make you feel good in the same way that a James Brown song will, it will help to make you feel BETTER, and ain't that just as (if not more) important?
Steely Dan - 'Josie'
Rev up the motor scooters! God damn this song is cool. It has so many changes that move so seamlessly. Even when the song fades out and you realise how intense it was musically, you realise that you don't have a scratch on you.Steely Dan have to be one of the greatest bands of all time, in my opinion.
Huey Lewis & The News - 'Hip To Be Square'
Probably the coolest song about being uncool that exists. The News are an incredibly tight band and Huey's voice is an immediately recognisable powerhouse.Man, they have some top-tier songs. The fill on the drums to the latter-half of the song where it's just the kick drum really gets me going in a way that only a kick drum can.
