Doug DeLuca GIMME LOVE Premieres at Surviving the Golden Age

Doug DeLuca is very pleased to announce that "Gimme Love", the new single from his forthcoming EP, Hit Your Mark (out 3.30), has premiered at Surviving the Golden Age. Listen here!

Press play on the Hit Your Mark EP and you can almost see the needle drop as the platter spins. Rough around the edges in all the right ways, the record breathes and moves. Drawing from mid-century R&B, soul, funk, and groove, Hit Your Mark is a well-mixed antidote to what so much of contemporary music is missing. Stuttering drums kick along, as thick brass blows smoke under the streetlight. At the wheel of this rhythmic Cadillac sits DeLuca...his voice the smooth caress of plush leather, inviting the listener to slide a little closer...

In 2016 a mutual friend introduced DeLuca to producer Louis Bartolini (Blimes Brixton) at Lineage Studios in Hollywood, CA. The duo knew they had good energy, and decided to write together. That spark of inspiration was soon a fire, and each song was developed in a mere one or two sessions. In addition to Bartolini and DeLuca, Hit Your Mark features bassist Nate Light (JR Rotem, Nick Offerman), pianist Ben Salk, guitarist Karl Kerefoot (Lord Huron), and rising talent VIAA (Anderson .Paak, Willow Smith) on backing vocals for "Gimmie Love" and "Hit Your Mark". Lyrically, DeLuca paints broad-stroke mediations on life and love that are instantly relatable, and imminently timeless.

In a time when mainstream music - and perhaps life in general - is increasingly synthetic, overproduced, and stuffed full of unnecessary electronic elements, simply for the sake of being au courant, Doug DeLuca has a few recommendations. Life, sometimes, just doesn't go your way. The triumph is in the pursuit. Dress up a little bit. Take the time to mix yourself a proper Old Fashioned*. Put on some music made by humans playing instruments. Go chase love (or at least lust). He'll see you out there.

"All you need in this lifetime, baby, is a moment to breathe..."