With influences ranging from Leonard Cohen to The Last Shadow Puppets and the film Casablanca, Nottingham’s Victory Lap have quickly established themselves as ones to watch and now they’re releasing their debut single ‘Jealousy’.
Described as ‘new noir’ in the press release, ‘Jealousy’ has elements of Richard Hawley’s yearning majesty but also baroque moments and a self-pitying awareness as the band put fears about falling in love right at the forefront – all over some M. Ward-esque guitar lines: ‘Let’s be done with solitude and settle down in a panic room’.