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Tom Findlay (of Groove Armada) and James Alexander Bright's musical relationship started on Twitter (a place where hope usually goes to die) after Tom listened to James' new release on the radio. Over a few months in the studio they created a mountain of work, some of which would feature on Groove Armada's Edge Of The Horizon album. Having enjoyed working together so much, they decided to start their own project and Bright & Findlay was born. The first track they worked on together was 'Slow Dance', a funky party track with its feet firmly in eighties boogie territory which received great support from the likes of Gilles Peterson (One of his tracks of the year), Huey Morgan (Whom they made a 6music mix for), Don Letts , Tom Ravenscroft , Bill Brewster , Dam Funk (Apple Music) Bluey (STR4RA / Incognito) KCRW - Triple J and beyond. Following tracks seemed to interweave and play alongside each other, with drum machine, chorus laden synths, guitars and a soulful vocal as a staple of their sound. 'Fireflies' was the first single from their debut 2023 long player Everything Is Slow which was released on 9 June 2023 via Athens Of The North. Opening with the low end arpeggio of ‘Hello In The Dark (Standing)’, the instant earworm groove of ‘Fireflies’, and the underground soul hit ‘Slow Dance’; the album has a stunning move and feel to it, packed front to back with sunshine boogie, cosmic disco and lashings of Balearic funk. ‘When I Look Into The World’ is the beautifully melanc