Unklejam: What Am I Fighting For

They call their music electro-soul. Like the three very different individuals who make up Unklejam, it's loud, colourful and funky but thoughtful too, with instant pop hooks and a heart full of soul.
Listen hard and you’ll hear echoes of P-funk, the sweet sound of classic soul mixing with 80s electro-pop, all with an edge that’s totally contemporary, immediately commercial, yet oddly hard to place. It doesn’t sound like anything else around. Which is exactly the point. “When we set out to make music, it was about being as left of centre as possible,” they say proudly. “Because if we didn’t, we wouldn’t be ourselves.”

The name Unklejam comes from Funkadelic’s 1979 album ‘Uncle Jam Wants You’. George Clinton’s wayward habit of creating his own funked-up universe appealed to a trio trying to forge a fresh musical identity, and they also name innovators like Prince, Gary Numan, Eurythmics, Donny Hathaway, Bob Marley, Sam Cooke and Sly & The Family Stone as influences. They’ve share great voices and an ear a great tunes with all these artists, but mainly it’s an attitude that they have in common: a determination to forge their own path, to make music that expresses how they feel rather than fits into neat pigeonholes.