Coyle Girelli: 'Do You Wanna Dance?' - rapturous new single from second solo album by New York based English singer-songwriter / album out 25.02.22

Soaring and cinematic, ‘Do You Wanna Dance?’ is the latest single to be issued from ‘Funland’, the forthcoming new album by New York-based English singer-songwriter Coyle Girelli. A radiant indie rock anthem driven by the fires within, it is emotional release manifest in song, a moment of intimacy after endless isolation and an exhilarating invitation to throw caution to the wind and dive into the unknown.

Three previous singles from ‘Funland’ - ‘Fun’, ‘From 7th Street With Love’ and ‘Here Comes My Baby’ - have showcased the album’s nuanced highs and its stirring lows, while Girelli’s talent at marrying potent, provocative emotions with catchy, timeless melodies seems at an all-time high, driven by an intense desire to capture something that is just out of reach.

That unattainable ecstasy and euphoria comes a little closer in ‘Do You Wanna Dance?’. Jangly and shimmering, and propelled by an insistent bass line, it is a taste of rapture in the midst of all the solitude and disconnect of the last two years. Girelli shines as bright as ever in an emotionally charged, beautifully intimate chorus, his golden voice reaching a high as he welcomes in a night of mystery and discovery. Is he courting a person, or is he courting his own state of reckless abandon – a feeling he has been steering clear of for so long?

“This one was one of the first songs I wrote for ‘Funland’,” states Girelli. “To me, it has the energy of a caged animal, as that is how I felt in the early days of lockdown, kind of bouncing off the walls! It felt good to write and live in this moment, and I’ve loved playing it live since I finished the album. I imagine this scene in a Studio 54-esque place, just escaping with somebody somewhere to get up to no good.”

As for ‘Funland' as a whole, he adds: “it doesn’t take itself too seriously and some of the lyrics are quite tongue-in-cheek. Sonically, it sits in the world I usually end up in, which is quite rich, wide and bold.”

In regard to the album title, he has previously explained that “‘Funland’ was a concept I had been kicking around before I started writing. A nighttime place of escape, debauchery, vice and pleasure. I wrote the songs while holed up in the woods in Vermont as the pandemic raged and the concept took on a whole new meaning as the New York City I was missing got entwined with this other mythical place that I had created in my mind and it became ‘Funland.’”

Coyle Girelli is an English singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist who has previously fronted the alternative rock bands Your Vegas and The Chevin. Based in Manhattan, New York for the last decade, he released a debut solo album entitled ‘Love Kills’ in late 2018. Packed with timeless and cinematic guitar-based songs and balladry, it demonstrated just why esteemed TV chat show host David Letterman had declared “if I had a voice like that I’d run for President” after hearing him sing.

Containing superb material such as the sumptuous sounding ‘Where’s My Girl’ (described by Clash Magazine as “a swooning knee trembler”), the glorious slow-burning 'Something Strange In The Night’, plus a grandiose orchestral title track that raised the bar even further, ‘Love Kills' was hailed Stateside as “a beautifully dark masterpiece” by Atwood Magazine and as “the most surprising musical diamond find of the year” by High Voltage. A hitherto undiscovered gem for most of its likely audience, in a perfect world the entire album would soundtrack the output of David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino.

As a songwriter, Girelli has collaborated with celebrated songsmiths such as Mac Davis and Linda Perry and written for several world renowned pop acts. He also works in theatre and co-composed the award winning French musicals ‘Robin des Bois’ and ‘Les Trois Mousquetaries’.