Listen to Romy and Sampha’s dreamy new collab ‘I’m On Your Team’
Romy and Sampha have teamed up for their dreamy new collaboration ‘I’m On Your Team’
The single sees the two musicians – who are longtime friends and labelmates – sing softly over a stripped-back piano. “You put your trust in me / I’ll show you I deservе it / All I ever need / Is right under your surface,” sings Sampha.
Both musicians join in on the chorus to sing: “And I / Hope the way I feel tonight / Is the way I feel for life,” describing the trust that is built within a relationship that is getting stronger by the moment. ‘I’m on Your Team’ is also created to co-producer and composer Thomas Bartlett
Speaking about the track in a press release, Romy shared: “It’s a love song but lyrically, it’s honest and truthful. Like ‘we’ve had the magic and dreaminess but now we’ve been through things together, so here we are and I’m putting in the work.’”
Sampha added: “I love the idea of being part of a team, that you have to show up for each other, and from there you can create an even deeper connection. The evolving nature of a relationship crystalises somewhere between the chorus of ‘And I hope the way I feel tonight / is the way I feel for life’ and the closing ‘I’m on your team, but I can’t always coach you.’”
Directed by Jennifer Lauren Martin, the song’s accompanying video sees Romy and Sampha intimately perform the track live at the London-based artist workers’ cooperative not/nowhere. The single artwork features a detail of a bespoke piece created by
Wales Bonner to celebrate the single.
‘I’m on your team’ is also featured during the closing credits to the new John Crowley-directed movie We Live In Time starring Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield.
Earlier this year, Romy and Sampha teamed up for a cover of André 3000’s ‘Me & My (To Bury Your Parents)’. The pair recorded a rendition of the former OutKast member and soloist’s song for the most recent edition of Sampha’s Apple Music 1 show ‘Wave Therapy’.
Romy’s last full-length release was her debut solo LP ‘Mid Air‘. In a five-star review of the album, NME shared: “Many of these songs will give you a prick of emotion at the back of your eyes – a sure sign that Romy really appreciates the healing power of a packed club floor.”
Sampha’s last full-length release was 2023’s ‘Lahai’, which followed his 2017 Mercury-winning debut LP ‘Process’. In a four-star review, NME described ‘No One Knows Me (Like The Piano)’ as the “saddest” track on the record. It added: “[It is] a stripped-back eulogy to his mother, played on a piano as beaten up and full of feeling as any Tom Waits ever sat down at.”
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