Parcels has announced their upcoming album, LOVED, alongside the release of their new single “youvegotmefeeling.” The album is due out Sept. 12.
In a release, the “youvegotmefeeling” feels like “consuming the first ice cream cone of the summer (as long as you ignore the lyrics tugging the thread of a disintegrating relationship).”
The Australian-born, Berlin-based quintet, which has garnered more than 1 billion streams, 600k+ album sales and a Daft Punk collab, is inviting listeners into a world filled with groove and harmonies, and LOVED marks unity with the five members, the music as well as listeners.
They will also embark on their North American tour this upcoming fall. The tour is set to begin in Berkeley on Oct. 13, before hitting stops across notable venues, including two iconic nights at Red Rocks Amphitheater in Denver.
Just from listening to the first five seconds of Parcel’s latest single, “Sorry” from their new album Loved, it sounds disturbingly similar to the 1980 classic hit song “Joy & Pain” by Maze, a soulful, R&B, funk band released under Capitol Records. Thus far, I haven’t seen any mention of that detail or influence from the artists themselves or the producers credited for the song in interviews. In an interview, one of the band members says it “…has some Rihanna inspiration, Te Amo.” I do hear it not that it’s been pointed out, originally I heard more of One Dance by Drake but perhaps it’s because of the male voice singing the lyric. On September 10th of 2024, the founder of Maze, Frankie Beverly, died at home from a heart attack. And now just a year after his death, their appears to be a band with a newly released single with a very, very similar sound as one of Beverly’s hit singles. Is it a case of unconscious interpolation or potential copyright? I’m just curious about other’s thoughts on the matter whether it be the writer of this article and/or the readers and listeners themselves.
The same group, Maze, was credited in Beyoncé’s “Before I Let Go” cover of the band’s hit song. Within the song, Beyoncé interpolated Cameo’s “Candy.”