Royce Wood Junior is back with a beautifully bizarre soul jam

The soul warlock is surprising us all with fresh sounds - some of the first new material since last year's dazzling debut LP The Ashen Tang.

"It's a mid-tempo jam track that wonders about the feasibility of absolutely everything being based on the procurement of money," Wood says. "Please buy this song!"

"The idea that monetary gain could be a primary consideration in the early stages of a piece of creative work is a sad and boring reality," Wood adds in a statement on Facebook. "It seems to me that the earlier the notion gets a seat at the table, the less chance the thing has of ending up as any kind of art. A lot of music nowadays sounds like a focus group, the carefully sculpted sound of 10 or more people's perceived opinions about what's the best way to trick people into liking something through reference and familiarity alone. Songs feeling like targeted ads and lyrics feeling as cynical and fleeting as memes."

"There are little islands in this shark pit though, occupied by people who are clinging for dear life onto the idea that 'maybe absolutely everything shouldn't be about money' - I'm inclined to agree," Wood continues. "If we concede to be as true as humanly possible in our work, sometimes it will be great, sometimes it'll be shit and sometimes it'll just be mediocre, exactly like how we are as people in our lives... but that's cool, at very least, it's your mediocrity, and that in itself is worth a billion Frankenstein songs with only bank at their hearts... artist friends, it's hard... almost impossible sometimes... but keep fighting the good fight."