# Berlin-based genre-defying LOSERS release revitalizing “Wake Up” video

- Link: https://www.nyrdcast.com/berlin-based-genre-defying-losers-release-revitalizing-wake-up-video/
- Published: 2021-06-04T11:55:37-05:00
- Author: Eugene Tierney

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“_[Losers] are going to be huge. It’s just a matter of how long it takes for people
to find them_.”
– **Gary Numan**

“_A divine offering to the aural gods_.” – **DJ Shadow**

“_Big – Losers have taken it to the next level_.”** – Zane Lowe**

“_Powerful, intense Rock Music_.” – **Clash Magazine**

“_An awesome slice of musical creativity that deserves to be heard._”** – Thinking
Lyrically**

“_This [“Wake Up”] is a right bit of everything, a peculiar hybrid of pop classics
and envelope-pushing sounds that makes it sit way out there on its own._” – **We
Close Tonight**
“_Already the dreamiest piece of music to come out this year, the
track blends psychedelic-esque vocals, sultry guitars that soar as far as the stratosphere
will let them and keys that keep building and never let up._” – **Play Too Much 
on “Lost in Translation”**

**Berlin-Based**

![](https://i0.wp.com/mcusercontent.com/f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984/images/5ec9f340-
c6ee-4bd7-bbc3-58a852a50e7e.png?resize=741%2C60&ssl=1)

**Release Revitalizing “Wake Up” Video _EP01 _out on June 28**

LOSERS - Wake Up (Official Video)

[⌊LOSERS - Wake Up (Official Video)⌉⌊LOSERS - Wake Up (Official Video)⌉
Watch this
video on YouTube

**LOSERS “Wake Up”**

**JUNE 3, 2021 (Berlin, Germany)** —“The video is the bridge between where **LOSERS**
were and where we find ourselves now,” says multi-instrumentalist **Tom Bellamy **
of genre-defying band LOSERS about the video to their new single “[**Wake Up**](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=177636e2a5&e=615f2b8493).”
Bellamy says that this video is a journey from the dark into the light and beyond.
Adding, “It’s a transformation. I had dreams of butterflies and I wanted to use 
them symbolically with the new music. It was time to let the light in. With the 
right frame of mind, even from the darkest of places, anything is possible if you
put your mind to it.” The single is the newest track taken from the band’s upcoming_**
EP01, **_out on **June 28, 2021**. Together with their visual director **Euan McGrath**(
_UNKLE, Stanley Kubrick _exhibition), the band decided that “Wake Up” would be the
springboard track for this EP, propelling them into a world of color. We Close Tonight
praises “Wake Up” and says it’s “_absolutely fascinating and well worth getting 
your teeth right into._” 

After feeling the need to “escape,” LOSERS landed in Berlin in 2014 and brought “
a lot of emotional baggage.” Bellamy adds, “Escaping always feels like a good idea,
but the pleasure of escape is often fleeting and eventually you end up coming back
to yourself. If your unaltered state is not a good place to be, then you find yourself
in a vicious circle because naturally you try and escape once more.” It was during
that time that the band had originally written the song. As time passed, the song
didn’t make sense lyrically and emotionally to the band anymore, so it was time 
for a reset. “After the dust had settled, we revisited ‘Wake Up’ and it literally
became the wakeup call.” “Wake Up” speaks about that realization that to make positive
changes and feel true joy that you have to experience pain and hardship and breakthrough
the fear of the unknown.  

![](https://i0.wp.com/mcusercontent.com/f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984/images/1f45ffe4-
fee5-0165-c29a-a6d1f57149aa.jpg?resize=273%2C273&ssl=1)

**“Wake Up”**

“Wake Up” follows the first single taken off of _EP01_, “[**Lost In Translation**](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=c6a3641be1&e=615f2b8493),”
which Play Too Much lauds as “the dreamiest single in recent memory” and Soundigest
calls a “turning point” for the band. The lyrics for “Lost in Translation” came 
pouring out from Bellamy a few years ago when he was feeling “really isolated, confused
and disconnected from the world” around him. He says the light at the end of the
tunnel was 2018’s Primavera Festival in Barcelona: it was the so-called catalyst
he needed to venture into “new territory” with the band’s music. At that time, Losers
still had a bunch of material left over from their 2016 critically-acclaimed fourth
studio album _**How To Ruin Other People’s Futures**_ and they felt like it needed
to be finished but continuing in the same frame of mind didn’t make sense anymore.
It was time for them to move on. As soon as he got back to the studio he started“
ripping things apart” and “putting them back together with new purpose. It was a
frenzy of creativity and it felt really positive.”

LOSERS are planning a busy 2021 with a goal of wiping the slate clean _via_ new 
and innovative platforms like Decentraland ([https://decentraland.org/](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=b2b40e18b7&e=615f2b8493))
who they’ve been partnering with to release their new music. To sign up for free
to future webinars join Club Losers [HERE](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=1f20af2ba8&e=615f2b8493).

![](https://i0.wp.com/mcusercontent.com/f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984/_compresseds/79e93c85-
8b5d-e647-8c3b-0d668257e6ce.jpg?resize=378%2C252&ssl=1)

Tom Bellamy and Paul Mullen of **LOSERS**
Photo credit: **Ben Madle**

Formed in 2007, Losers are comprised of DJ **Eddy Temple-Morris**, multi-instrumentalist/
vocalist **Tom Bellamy** (formerly of The Cooper Temple Clause), and guitarist/vocalist**
Paul Mullen** (formerly of Yourcodenameis:milo and The Automatic). Hailed by critics
and fellow artists alike who reveled in the band’s ability to seamlessly merge indie
electronic music with guitar rock, Losers have been so venerated that their dynamic
and epically sweeping music has been heard in dozens of TV, film, videogames and
sports placements including _**Game of Thrones, The Blacklist, Hercules, The Killing,**
_and as the official theme music for BMX Championships London _**2012 Olympic Games**_.
Earlier this year, they released a reworking of Tears for Fears’ 1985 smash “[**Shout**](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=973f3f6f08&e=615f2b8493)”–
which has been prominently featured in the hit show _**A Discovery of Witches**_(
S2: Ep 4) on **Amazon Prime**, **AMC+, Sundance Now**, and **Shudder** and is not
only rejuvenating their loyal fanbase but also winning over new fans who heard their
dark cover and fell in love. 
   **LOSERS **“[**Wake Up**](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=ef1d231e43&e=615f2b8493)”
single/video is out now**.**_** EP01**_ will be released on **June 28, 2021.**

![](https://i0.wp.com/mcusercontent.com/f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984/images/520a98c6-
66b8-acf5-c04a-f018f2bd6bfb.jpg?resize=97%2C97&ssl=1)

_**EP01**_

**Tracklist**
[Wake Up](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=076cd96a01&e=615f2b8493)
Fool AnyoneFollow You[Lost in Translation](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=dc6e35043d&e=615f2b8493)

[Twitter](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=0db04582f2&e=615f2b8493)
[Facebook](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=c161b2923e&e=615f2b8493)
[Website](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=7b3bdb3f76&e=615f2b8493)
[Instagram](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=6df19a6211&e=615f2b8493)
[Spotify](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=3ab2c3585c&e=615f2b8493)

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