Just With You - Industry Preview

LAUNCHING ON 15TH AUG 2025 VIA REXIUS RECORDS.

About this song: Just With You is an extremely emotional song that will connect with all kinds of people. This song is about those nostalgic moments that we all get that make us feel utterly content, safe and at peace. A melody from our childhood. The smell of a certain food that reminds you of your mum's cooking.  The sound of the sea splashing against a shoreline. Lying in a meadow surrounded by flowers. Looking into someone's eyes and the first time you fell in love. These emotions... forever locked to our senses, are what make us human.  Over the period of a lifetime we collect experiences and memories that ultimately make us who we are. They form our soul. And to think that at some point in your life you could meet the perfect person to share those things with... your soulmate... that is something truly wonderful.

This song has been a challenge for many reasons. For Chandra personally, he will openly admit that the process of writing the lyrics brought him to tears and he still wells up now listening to the song. The vocal performance was also a struggle, as Chandra tells us:
"I knew that this had to be the best singing I'd ever done because it had to be so real, so powerful and yet so vulnerable at the same time in order to convey these messages with authenticity. But when I wrote this melody I couldn't initially sing it because it's right on the range limit at both ends. I felt so much pressure to get it right but thankfully producer Elliott Vaughan coaxed it out of me in the end".

​You can hear the final song below and would love to know what you think.
FULL MUSIC VIDEO (VIDEO #7) - DIRECTOR'S CUT (INTERACTIVE JOURNEY START WITH VIDEO #1 BELOW)
VIDEO #1 - START HERE - DIRECTOR'S CUT
VIDEO #2 - HERO
VIDEO #3 - VILLAIN
VIDEO #4 - HERO
VIDEO #5 - VILLAIN
VIDEO #6 - ENDING - DIRECTOR'S CUT

CHRISTMAS HUGS LAUNCHES 22ND NOV

On Friday 22nd November 2024 Bristol (UK) based pop-rock band Chandra release Christmas Hugs, a festive feast for the ears bursting with joy, good vibes and earworm melodies. Following the August release of the 6-track Lifted EP, Christmas Hugs delivers the cheeky, melody-driven pop-rock that has become synonymous with this band, fused with unashamed, unabashed festive sizzle and nostalgic nods to Christmas gold.
Don’t let that fool you though because in keeping with all of Chandra’s music there is a poignant message underlying the song, as frontman Chandra explains:
“My favourite thing about Christmas is the swell of joy and goodwill that spreads like a virus as soon as Halloween ends and runs all the way through to New Year’s Eve. It’s as if people give themselves permission to be more friendly, more charitable and more forgiving than they ever would be at any other time of year. We wanted to write a song that celebrates this wonderful transformation of the human spirit but also a song that acts like a great big Christmas hug in, and of, itself.”
 
Christmas Hugs will be released in 2 versions: Normal & Sped-Up
Chandra has released 7 singles and an EP in the past 24 months, one every 12 weeks, each complete with a full music video.
PR was handled by PlusMusicPR and IMP. DSP was handled by Don't Try, NowListenPR and PlusMusicPR.
All 7 were launched to waves of positive press acclaim, with press reception getting better and better with each consecutive release.
Press noted that Chandra's songwriting offers something fresh, new, unique, uplifting and thought-provoking, yet somehow warm and nostalgic.
Get an overview of the press coverage here
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

What is it exactly that you want from a partner?
Chandra has worked tirelessly for the past 2 years refining his songwriting style, developing and building his brand and consistently releasing great songs to critical acclaim. All of this has been self-financed. Chandra and his band will continue to work hard in 2025, playing live as much as possible in order to build up the fanbase and bring money back into the fold via EP and merchandise sales. But self-financing can only get us so far. There is a glass ceiling and we will have reached it.
We need top level PR representation, respected, connected management and distribution partners in order to speak to top-tier music media, infiltrate big streaming Playlists, secure impactful radio playlisting,  lock down great support slots and work with global distribution players.
We need help scaling up our success. It's not necessarily about finance either; we could take out business loans if we really wanted to and release everything under the Kick-Ass Media Group label (Chandra's VAT-registered music publishing company) but we simply don't have the necessary connections to maximise our success and make that investment worthwhile.

How self-sufficient are you?
We can record, produce, mix and master to a broadcast standard. But we are always open to new ways of working and new producers.
We can create social content to a high level and create music videos to a very high level. At the same time we're very good at creating impactful, memorable music videos on a low budget.
We have a rehearsal studio, all own our own gear and we all drive.

How commited are you?
All 3 of us are ultra commited. This is all we want to do. We are not teenagers. We have all done this before in other bands; we know what it takes, we have been through a lot and we are wiser and more mature for it... yet hungrier than ever. We know who we are and don't need to spend a decade finding ourselves.

Why don't you have more gigs booked?
We are trying to be smarter. We have no issues with playing lots and lots of small gigs but that doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. In 2025 we are scaling back on small, pointless gigs that soak up time and energy. Instead we are focusing on what can be fruitful, ie festivals, a school tour and releasing more music and video than ever before

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