UK artist George Gretton released this month his brand new single ‘Clear’, which is just the first of many singles that he has planned for release over the next few months – and it’s also his debut release with Mammal Sounds Records.

As George explains below, ‘Clear’ was in-fact one of the quickest songs that he has written to date, and while it doesn’t quite sound anything like Kayne, George says the man was a big inspiration for this song, mainly in the way that he uses samples in some of his older music.

“Clear is the quickest song I’ve ever written & produced in my life. Although it doesn’t sound anything like him, I was returning to some of Kanye’s old music and thinking about how he uses samples. That made me want to work with some samples but I kind of just wanted to sample myself.

 It took me about 5 mins to record some improvised singing, which I then chopped it up into one-line samples and played them on some sample-pads until I heard something that felt like a hook. I like writing this way sometimes, as it can give the track a huge focal point that isn’t a huge chorus. Once I had the vocal samples and a drum loop the basis of the song was pretty much there.

 It was written, recorded, produced, mixed and mastered all in a week. I usually like spending a long time pouring over every last detail of my songs, but I kind of felt like this didn’t want diluting at all. Just the concentrated ideas from one or two days and nothing else was all Clear needed. That’s why it’s pretty short, concise and to the point, at least sonically”.