London five-piece Fanfarlo return with their first new music in 18 months in the shape of new EP, The Sea, released through their own label New World Records on 14th October. The four-track EP opens with ‘A Distance’, which will also feature on the band’s forthcoming third album. A “disco jam” propelled by Moroder-style arpeggios and swimming in bongos and mellotron strings, ‘A Distance’ also explores the “fraught attempts at communicating with each other” of human beings and “how it seems we are reduced to some sort of echo or projection of ourselves in someone else’s brain”. Now, be honest, how many other bands write “disco jams” about that?