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Video: I’ve improved – by Gabby Young & Other Animals

Never heard of this acclaimed cult band? Watch their new video right here

We’ve long been fans of arty K-Town troupe Gabby Young & Other Animals (read the Ich Bin Q&A with singer Gabby here).

So we reckon you could do worse this long bank holiday weekend than download their new single, I’ve Improved, which was released on Monday.

A suitably jaunty affair – with a catchier-than-crabs chorus – it’s the lead ditty from their upcoming third album, One Foot In Front of the Other, which is packed to the rafters with cabaret and quirky pop.


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For the uninitiated, we highly recommend you take a peek at the video above: a witty affair which references the era of silent movies, it’s nice to see such eccentricity flying high out of NW5.

Oxford-raised Young, 30, first came to north London when she was 19 to play a small acoustic gig at now sadly defunct music pub Monkey Chews. “The audience reacted so well to my songs,” she says, “that that was the night I first thought I could actually be a singer-songwriter.”

Three albums later, including world tours, headline dates at KOKO and 2012’s critically acclaimed The Band Call Out For More – whose promo vid for Walk Away was shot on Hampstead Heath – we reckon that wish has pretty much become true.

New album One Foot In Front of the Other is out on June 2. Find out more about Gabby Young & Other Animals here

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