When you listen to the title track from Jontha Links’ new EP material love, you’d never guess that the two singers are former Silicon Valley whiz kids. The song has a hooky, Charlie Puth feel that demonstrates why the duo has quickly become an Internet sensation.
Both Connie and Shamik are first-generation Americans born to academic parents. They ditched the algorithms and moved to LA to become song scholars.
With regard to the new EP, the artists note, “We want to make something deeply personal, but then there’s this pressure to make something with popular appeal. That materialism exists in the music we grew up on, too. In material love we accept the duality. We use the sounds of 2000s radio to write songs that are raw, honest reflections on who we are today — it’s something both old and new.”
The new EP is a bracing blend of pop, hip-hop and punk – and it’s one of the fall’s finest releases.
Listen to “material love” below, or find the full EP on your favorite streamer.
