With shared influences currently including Justice, Fedde Le Grand, Calvin Harris, Example, Bruno Mars and Daft Punk, the collective’s sound clearly reflects the thrill of dance-pop’s genre-trashing cutting-edge and reaching for something fresh and unique, while grounding each track in a melody of timeless memorability. And each new combination of creatives imprinted its distinctive dynamic, rolling back the borders of The Urban State still further.
Latest Single
“Got Love”
Dating back to its genesis in 2003, ‘Got Love’ has undergone changes to its backing track and structure, taking a previously unreleased song and pushing it into the category of prized single. The addition of Henry Collins’s brass playing and string arrangement from Bjorn Kleinman are what convinced Urban State that they had an infectious single on their hands.
Sampler tracks
Tracks from new album “Got Love”
- Got Love
- When The Night Calls
- My Imagination
- Music (Let’s Use It)
- Let It Shine
- Give In, Get Up, Get On!
- No Strings
- Drowning
- Love’s Fireworks
- I Feel Free
All tracks written by Roderick Williams.
Album produced and arranged by Matt Walters with Roderick Williams.
Vocal arrangements by Angela & Roderick.
Singles
"Got Love"
"Now That You’re Gone"
"Don't Say a Word"
"Let's Dance"
"Party People"
"DNA"
"Let It Go"
Listen to the full albums on The Urban State SoundCloud profile
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Videos
Lyrics
Got Love
I’ve got you to make me fly
Got love and it’s got meaning
I’ve got loving to make me high
Got love and I’m not dreaming
I’ve got you a magic touch
Got love and there’s no ceiling
I’ve got love can’t get enough
And even if the sun & moon
Should fall down from the sky
I wouldn’t change the way I feel
For all the stars are shining
And it’s no lie
This love keeps taking me over
Love keeps taking me over
Lifting me up to a higher place
Love keeps taking me over
Love keeps taking me over
Got love, got love, got love
Got love, got love
Got love It’s a delicate flower
I got you a solid rock
I’ve got love that’s oozing power
I got you that fills me up
Got love It’s A wonderful feeling
I’ve you to hold me tight
Got love that keeps me flowing
I’ve got love to make life right
And even if the sun & moon
Should fall down from the sky
I wouldn’t change the way I feel
For all the stars are shining
And its no lie
love keeps taking me over
Love keeps taking me over
Lifting me up to a higher place
love keeps taking me over
Love keeps taking me over
Got love, got love, got love
Got love, got love..
DNA
So pure it’s scientific
More than physical attraction
Someone just discovered it
Saying it’s a chain reaction
With the beats of a heart
Full of joy
Loving you is in my
God given DNA
Don’t you see
I was born this way
Pure love runs through my veins
Nothing more I can say
Cause loving you is in my
God given DNA
They say it’s about genetics
That are inherently in me
A pull so magnetic
It sparks love to grow and be free
With the beats of a heart
Full of joy
Loving you is in my
God given DNA
Don’t you see
I was born this way
Pure love runs through my veins
Nothing more I can say
Cause loving you is in my
God given DNA
Joy & Glory
To get us on our feet
Life’s much easier if
There’s somebody who cares
And shows you there’s light
Following dark nights
Offer up your hand
And tell man he can
Now write a story
Of joy and glory
If you pass a man
Living on the street
Think for a moment
We all have a cross to bear
Life’s a game of chance
and of rolling the dice
Nothing more
Than luck where
anybody
Can win
If you Know
There’s light
Following dark
nights
you will feel
Stronger
To embrace
Your life
Offer up your hand
And give man
A chance
To write
His story
Of joy and
glory
Life’s full of sorrow
look towards
Tomorrow
write your own story
Of joy and
Glory
Life’s a book that writes
Stories of love and pain
where we need help
To turn the pa-age
Offer up your hand
And give man
A chance
He’ll write
His story
Of joy and
glory
Life’s full of sorrow
look towards
Tomorrow
write your own story
Of joy and
Glory
We all need
Answers
In our
Changing lives
We need love
To help
Us through
Troubled
The Love I've Been Praying For
Down the years
Letting love
Slip far from me
I yearn for love
Free from tears
To feel what
Is meant to be
As I kneel at love’s alter
It’s my heart I offer
Please give me more
Now I’ve found
The love I’ve been praying for
I’ve had long nights
On my own asking me
If it’s too late
But now I see
All you’ve shown
I know it’s worth the wait
So father as new love begins
Forgive me my sins
As I kneel at love’s alter
It’s my heart I offer
Please give me more
Now I’ve found
The love I’ve been praying for
I feel so sure
That your love’s
The one I’ve been praying for
And I thank the heavens above
For giving me a higher love
Please give me more
Now I’ve found
The love I’ve been praying for
I feel so sure
That your love’s
The one I’ve been praying for
Please give me more
Now I’ve found
The love I’ve been praying for
I feel so sure
That your love’s
The one I’ve been praying for
Man (One Of A Kind)
Taking me from shadows
Showing this girl
How to forget such sorrows
It’s in the way you teach
Love’s still within my reach
Man as you lie beside me
I realise we’re meant to be
Man now I know real love seems
To be made from my
Sweet dreams
One of a kind
Showing me your love light
Understanding I feel
It won’t go right
It’s in the way you teach
Love’s still waiting my reach
Man as you lie beside me
I realise we’re meant to be
Man now I know real love seems
To be made from my
Sweet dreams
Played it cool at the start
Cause of my damaged heart
Prisoner of my memories
Had to learn to be free
Man as you lie beside me
I realise we’re meant to be
Man now I know real love seems
To be made from my
Sweet dreams
It Feels So Good
Fell in to your arms
And before long I was
Taken by your charms
Slowly wanting
All of you
Knowing I could
Reach new highs
Held by all the love
In your eyes
I know this loves’s right ’cause
It feels so good
And the way you hold me tight
Keeps me longing for more
We kiss like lovers should
Talking heart to heart
It feels so good
It feels so good
A true lover you know
How to open doors
Your loving touch slowly
Owning all my thoughts
And I’m loving you rolling
Me deep under
And my heart begins aching
When we part
I know this love’s right ’cause
It feels so good
The way you hold me tight
Keeps me longing for more
We kiss like lovers should
Talking heart to heart
It feels so good
It feels so good
It’s hard to find a love
That is true
We’ve got a chance together
Me and you
I know this love’s right cause
It feels so good
And the way you hold me tight
Keeps me longing for more
We kiss like lovers should
Talking heart to heart
It feels so good
It feels so good
Now That You're Gone
Thinking it best to walk
No regrets on the night
Doing what felt right
I threw our love away
Living for the day
Now that you’re gone
I’m crying
All alone in my bed
Now that you’re gone
I’m dying
Going out of my head
Now that you’re gone
Now that you’re gone
I’m paying for what I said
I felt I was hiding
Away from real loving
Thinking me oh so wise
And Lost to compromise
I threw our love away
Living for the day
Trust In Love
Just needs time
To heal and make
A new start
Let in the light
And give me
Just one chance to
Make it right
Come to me
Let me be your
Shining star
Trust in love
To ease all your pain
Believe you’ll
Feel whole again
Trust in love
To dry all your tears
Believe in me
I’ll ease your fears
You’re feeling blue
So so lost
Wondering just
What to do
Life seems so dark
When alone
We’ll find the light
Me and you
Come to me
Let me be your
Shining star
Trust in love
To ease all your pain
Believe you’ll
Feel whole again
Trust in love
To dry all your tears
Believe in me
I’ll ease your fears
We all spend
Time in the dark
Moments we
think there’s no end
When we find
It hard to laugh
All it takes is time to…
Trust in love
To ease all your pain
Believe you’ll
Feel whole again
Trust in love
To dry all your tears
Believe me
I’ll ease your fears
Don't You Dare
Of your cheating ways
Your eye for the sights
Makes it hard to stay
You’re the kind of man
Who lives for the day
With girls hanging on
Every word you say
Now listen to me
I’ve given you
My heart my soul
So I’m telling you
I don’t care
What you have to say
Don’t you dare
Throw my love away
Now you’re saying you’ve
Changed your wicked ways
That you danced to love
In the long gone days
Mines the love you see
The kind to make you stay
Not just part night but
‘Till the break of day
Now listen to me
I’ve given you
My heart my soul
So I’m telling you
I don’t care
What you have to say
Don’t you dare
Throw my love away
Got my eyes
On you
Watching what you do
I don’t care….
Rumours Of Love
There’s perfume in the air
How much more can you take
Living with his affair
Why do you turn the other cheek?
Why does love make us all so weak?
Why do you turn the other cheek?
You won’t hear these rumours
These rumours of love
So you won’t cry
You won’t hear these rumours
These rumours of love
So you won’t cry
There’s no talk the next day
And the silence is so loud
With words you can’t say
You were once oh so proud
Why do you turn the other cheek?
Why does love make us all so weak?
Why do you turn the other cheek?
You can run but you can’t hide
From the pain he’s not the one
He’s not the one
You won’t hear these rumours
These rumours of love
So you won’t cry
You won’t hear these rumours
These rumours of love
So you won’t cry