Elle Watson adds gusto to King Henry's "Bad For Me"

29 June 2018, 10:00 | Written by Paul Bridgewater

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Grammy-nominated New-Mexico-born musical polymath King Henry's just dropped the first new music this year in the form of a neat collab with rising vocalist Elle Watson.

The two met when the then 17-year-old Watson was in LA a couple of years ago on a family trip. "We got together at my studio just to hang and listen to some music," explains King Henry, "[and] she played me some early demos before she had released anything...I was blown away by her voice and the originality of the music she was making."

Watson "put her own spin on the song" according to King Henry, and the end result is a catchy-as-hell melancholic banger.

It's the first of three Black Butter/Duke City-released singles we're promised this summer from the the insanely talented producer who made his name on Beyoncé's Lemonade, and The Weeknd’s Starboy. "I made one of them on a trip through NYC recently and will actually be singing on it myself for the first time," KH tells Best Fit.

There's also a track with Nina Nesbitt to come. "They all fall into the same sonic world as ‘Bad For Me’," says KH. "My aim with these new releases is to make songs that you can listen to high late at night walking the streets of any big city but could also close your eyes and vibe at a dark nightclub somewhere."

King Henry's also been busy lately working with the likes of Sia, Diplo and Labrinth on the LSD project as well as co-writing and producing Sasha’s Sloan’s debut EP. We're promised some UK shows soon too, following up last year's East London live debut.