Following in the vein of past tracks ‘Take Me There’ and ‘All Smoke, No Fire’, Benin City continue their musical protest against the closure of London’s nightclubs with ‘Final Form’. Inspired by one poet/vocalist Joshua Idehen’s evenings out in the ‘00s, ‘Final Form’ is about one of those nights where time seems to fly, you’ve lost the feeling in your feet but still keep dancing, and the lights come up when you’re somehow still in mid-groove. As the Londoner himself tells it: "I once went to Zoo Bar in the west end with a poet I really fancied. It was a Saturday night and neither of us drank but we felt like dancing. They were playing soulful house (this was way back in the noughties). Spurring and daring each other on, we started with the running man and ended up at last orders, dripping in the worst sweat, making new dance moves up, downing large glasses of tap water." As to where the song’s title comes from, well… "She, a Dragonball Z fan, kept saying, “nah, you haven’t seen my Final Form. Next song I will be over 9000.” Obviously, that stuck with me." Alongside band members Tom Leaper and Shanaz Dorsett, who each have their own history of club-going, they’ve produced a killer track with a recurring beat pattern that somehow sounds iconic already. Look out for Benin City’s album, Last Night, on June 15th - sure to hold more exemplary dance tunes. - HT