Supakarma Reveal “The Way It Is” From Long Lost Self Titled Album

The end of the nineties was nigh. Britpop mania was over, and the Y2K bug was about to wreak global damage at the turn of the new Millennium. Meanwhile, In Milton Keynes Supakarma were diligently crafting in the rehearsal room and didn’t care much about bugs or anything else. They were consumed by their creations; harnessing the best bits of an exploded genre and giving their songs a brash, experimental edge. It was all sounding exciting. The band, consisting of frontman Daniel Binks, guitarist Jamie Paul Morris, bassist Steven Sciberras and drummer Ben Hallett, soon took their sounds out of the rehearsal space and into the live, cutting their teeth on the London circuit and making their mark at select festivals in the low countries. 

They found favour with those dates, and their musical musings landed them an extended stay at top-flight studio, Great Linford Manor. Everything should have been magnificent, and very nearly was, until band friction during the recording process led to the session unravelling. Instead of the promised robust release, an acrimonious split left the project unfinished and gathering dust. Those tracks might well still be sitting on the shelf today, were it not for the devastating loss of guitarist Jamie Paul Morris in 2019. His untimely death reopened lines of communication between the remaining members, and where there had been discontent, there was a realisation that they had unfinished business, and the band have reconvened to deal with it. 

It took two decades and a tragic turn of events to re-ignite the flame, but in these ‘Karma’ times the band have made good on their promise from years ago. The band have now released The Way It Is, the second single to be taken from an album that would have been ahead of its time, but is most definitely a release for the here and now. Supakarma will be available as a limited edition vinyl release and through streaming platforms via Forte Distribution on August 4th.