Cairobi dazzle with tangled psych-pop number "Saint"
28 November 2016, 11:54
| Written by
Laurence Day
London-based quartet Cairobi have shared their dazzling new psych-pop number "Saint".
"Saint" is a trippy brew oozing oddball charm, with Middle Eastern-inspired riffs and overblown American psych marbled together to create a knot of leftfield noise. It's heady and lush, with whirring chirrups and shuffly beats and chopped-up vox and more all stabbed into a central nugget of golden vintage rock. It's messy, sure, but it's brilliant.
"Saint" will feature on Cairobi's eponymous debut record, due out 27 January via Some Other Planet.
Wanna see the band in action? We've giving away tickets to see Cairobi, plus loads more ace acts, in Paris - plus we're sorting the trains there and back. Find out more.
Latest
- Ami Taf Ra announces Kamasi Washington-produced debut album, The Prophet and The Madman
- Upchuck sign to Domino and share Ty Segall-produced track, "Plastic"
- Motion City Soundtrack announce first album in a decade, The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World
- Winter joins forces with Horse Jumper of Love on new single, "Misery"
- Watch Speedy Wunderground-signed experimentalists O. live in session
- Bicep collaborate with indigenous artists on new project, TAKKUUK
- Noah Cyrus details second album, I WANT MY LOVED ONES TO GO WITH ME
Get the Best Fit take on the week in music direct to your inbox every Friday
Read next
News
Listen
Fabrizio Cammarata offers a sacred soundscape in “Asanta”
Verve-signed Aron! releases debut EP Cozy you (and other nice songs)
Gracie and Rachel deliver folk-pop for the future on "WTF"
Hot Stamp unleash irrepressible pop-rock on debut single, “Josephine”
St. Catherine’s Child explores the duality of life in the transcendent “The Other Side Of 25”
Naughties hype is back (and justified) as RIP Magic finally drop a glorious deuce
Reviews

Patrick Wolf
Crying The Neck
11 Jun 2025

Little Simz
Lotus
06 Jun 2025