Vamberator team up with The Woodentops’ Rolo McGinty for ‘I Need Contact’ remix single on New Reality Records
Vamberator
Vamberator has teamed up with The Woodentops’ Rolo McGinty for a “I Need Contact” remix single on New Reality Records. The single features remixes of “I Need Contact” and “Creature in My House,” alongside a new video and a customised USB release. Vamberator consists of the duo Jemaur (Jem) Tayle (Shelleyan Orphan) and Boris Williams (The Cure). The original version of “I Need Contact” appears on Vamberator’s debut album “Age of Loneliness” (Unifaun Productions / Maracash, January 2025).
Rolo McGinty’s revision keeps Jem Tayle’s sparse piano framework and adds cellist Asakura Momoka. Tayle says: “The theme is loneliness in its many forms. The loss of loved ones, places, and the struggling need to connect with nature as it slowly disappears. Does a creature in the throes of extinction understand its plight? Does it continue to seek out a mate against all the odds?”
McGinty adds: “I kidnapped a cellist and down to the dungeon of decibels we went. Adding the cello made it more timeless … I added the audio of a very old diesel train … It’s very quiet in the mix, adding merely an atmosphere: industrial amongst the sombre string quartet tones.”
Our colleagues from Cold War Night Life premiered the video, calling the track “a slow-burning, cinematic remix … blending fragile strings and industrial hums into Tayle’s piano ballad.”
About Vamberator
Vamberator was formed in 2024 by Jemaur (Jem) Tayle (vocals, keys, songwriting) and Boris Williams (drums; ex-The Cure) after their work in Shelleyan Orphan and subsequent projects. The band is UK-based and records a pop/rock hybrid drawing on soul, art-pop, glam, and chamber-pop lineages noted in early coverage of their debut.
“Age of Loneliness” was released January 24, 2025, on Unifaun Productions / Maracash (CD, later digital). In 2025, New Reality Records issued two McGinty collaborations: “Creature in My House (Rolo McGinty Mix)” (August 12) and “I Need Contact (Rolo McGinty Mix)” (November 5), available digitally and on a limited USB format.
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