Grammy Award winner Darryl Torr had this to say about Diamond Thug: “When listening to Diamond Thug, you are taken on a journey. It’s the effortless vocals, supported by a solid band, that tips you over the edge and pulls you through into their world. It’s rare to find a voice that can execute such interesting melodies so effortlessly as well as a band that leaves space for the vocals to shine, yet are able to maintain musical integrity”.
Diamond Thug is a four-piece independent, alternative pop band from Cape Town, South Africa featuring Chantel Van T (Vocals & Synth), Danilo Queiros (Bass & Synth), Adrian Culhane (Vocals, Guitar & Synth) and Ted Buxton (Drums). One of South Africa’s most streamed artists, their otherworldly music dances through assorted genres, from Dream-Pop to Psych-Rock with hints of Shoe Daze, Space Rock, Ambient Pop, and Electronica. Diamond Thug create ethereal soundscapes, allowing space for dreamy vocal melodies to float above. Following the success of a multi-platinum collaboration with Goldfish and their own gold-rated single. Diamond Thug’s debut album, ‘Apastron‘ earned the band the prestigious placement as Apple Music’s New Artist Spotlight in April 2018.
On all their songs, Diamond Thug succeed in doing something which is not that easy at all: exploring the fringes of ambient electronica and space rock with surprising imagination, while at the same time making refreshing music, capable of reaching a very wide audience. While some tracks include mysterious, dark touches, which take the listener to imaginative melodic landscapes; in some songs, they evoke eargasmic moments of psychedelic reminiscences.
Featured here is their psychedelically paced, trippy space pop gem “Sakura” from “Apastron’, presented in an equally dreamy new music video directed by Abigael Thompson. It’s a magnificent love song that slowly intoxicates you and stays with you even when you are finished with a lingering pleasant aftertaste. Come, taste it!
Diamond Thug – Sakura (Song Lyrics)
Speak up, there’s nothing I regret
I’m drunk enough
Love, it’s certain that I’ll try again
Wipe it away, like you’re afraid of it
Again, again, again
There’s a certain way that I drift now
Softly into you
It’s uncertain what will be allowed
In this time of youth
Speak up, there’s nothing I regret
I’m drunk enough
Love, it’s certain that I’ll try again
Wipe it away, like you’re afraid of it
Again, again, again
Back at the beginning of the universe, hanging on the edge
Right at the beginning, I was tripping
I was tripping on the edge, on the edge
There you are again
There you are
You are again
