Jack Garratt pivots into dance music via new Skint deal

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Jack Garratt is back with his first new music since 2020 album ‘Love, Death & Dancing’. Having tapped into some electronic influences on that earlier record, he’s now leaning fully into dance music on new single ‘Just How I Like It’, aided by a new record deal with Skint.“‘Just How I Like It’ is a song about release and reclamation”, says Garratt. “I wrote it in the summer of 2021, when I wasn’t sure what to do with all the music I’d written over lockdown, as it was all pretty depressing.

So rather than work on any of it, I started making dance music to cheer myself up. This is the first of those dance tracks. It is an instructional song on how to drink tequila.

I personally like it with a squeeze of lime. And then I like to dance. So I wrote a song about that”.“You can’t avoid feelings, you can’t avoid negative things happening to you, they will happen”, he goes on. “And it’s not as easy as just going, you know, c’est la vie, life goes on.

No, it fucking sucks. Things hurt. Why not take that and put it into a funky song that makes you want to dance. Let’s dance while the world is ending!”Indeed.