Watch Moonchild Sanelly and Sad Night Dynamite’s Demon video

6 Oct 2021 - 16:12

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South African musician Moonchild Sanelly and UK duo Sad Night Dynamite have released their new single ‘Demon’. The song is accompanied by a video and is available on all major streaming platforms.

Moonchild Sanelly and Sad Night Dynamite.

‘Demon’ was released on Transgressive Records and Gallo Record Company. It received its first play on BBC Radio 1 as Hottest Record in the World, and follows Sad Night Dynamite’s recent single ‘Psychedelic Views’ featuring IDK, as well as Moonchild Sanelly’s ‘Undumpable’.

“The song is an electric collaboration between South African star Moonchild Sanelly and Glastonbury-natives Sad Night Dynamite: danceable, dystopian but ultimately empowering in its exorcism of dark influences in your life,” a statement reads.

“It was amazing to work with the guys on this track,” Moonchild Sanelly said. “I love their sound and when I heard their twisted instrumental, I knew I needed to write about this demon that was in my life at the time, a very real and dark experience I was going through. It’s great to work with people with such a different sound who are across the globe feeling the same things about someone.”

Sad Night Dynamite said they began working on ‘Demon’ “after Moon’s verse gave Josh a nightmare in which he was on trial for being a witch. In the end it turned out he wasn’t one, but by that point it was too late, they’d already drowned him. We’ve been big fans of Moonchild for a minute now. We love her music and what she stands for. The energy she brought with ‘Demon’ was so unique. Collaborating with her was a no-brainer.”

Moonchild Sanelly’s recent releases have opened up a new chapter for her after last year’s EP Nüdes, her features on Gorillaz album Strange Timez, Ghetts UK radio hit ‘Mozambique’ and Beyoncé’s Black Is King visual album.

Sad Night Dynamite are hailed as one the UK’s most exciting new bands. A duo of lifelong friends Archie and Josh, the pair met at school but started the project while separated at niversity. Their dizzily accomplished debut mixtape – influences range from Tyler, The Creator, The Specials and Morricone to lyrics laced with a distorted, fairground-mirror way with storytelling – created a true world of its own, and even in the pandemic saw Sad Night Dynamite win an impassioned early audience with millions of streams, a sold-out headline tour, and co-signs ranging from Gorillaz to FKA Twigs.