A mash-up that needs to be heard to be believed, the track is cut from the band’s Maida Vale live session earlier this week when they were invited to play at the legendary London studios by BBC R1’s Jack Saunders.

The Glasgow four piece took the opportunity to re-imagine the lead single of their freshly released debut album ‘Cheaply Bought, Expensively Sold’ (out now on Modern Sky UK), with distinctively Scottish-flavoured covers of the mega-hits by two of their favourite US artists.

Speaking about the mash-up, Declan says: 

“We are chuffed with this. We were asked to do a Maida Vale mashup for Jack Saunders and Radio 1, so we decided to combine two of our favourite acts and tunes - the queen that is Lizzo and the heroes that are the Strokes. You never know ye needed ‘Juice’ into ‘Reptilia’, but here it is. Ya ya eeh, troops. Ya ya eeh.'

The session follows the release of the band’s exhilarating debut just last week, a record which has seen THE SCOTSMAN praising its “swagger and attitude", and the THE SKINNY hailing Declan’s profound lyrical abilities to: “dig deep into the seeming mundanity of city life in a way reminiscent of Mike Skinner or Alex Turner”.

Declan Welsh is a songwriter and poet from Glasgow. Combining taut indie rock and strongly held beliefs,  Declan and his band, The Decadent West create music that is unapologetic, direct and with a message of humanity that has won over scores of fans already. Releasing their rousing first EP ‘All My Dreams Are Dull’ to widespread approval in 2018, the Decadent West now truly set out their stall with their debut album: ‘Cheaply Bought, Expensively Sold’, 12 studio recordings produced by the esteemed Chris Marshall in Glasgow (Gerry Cinnamon, Baby Strange, The Dunts, The Van T's etc).

In the lead-up to the new album, the Declan & Co. whet appetites with recent single '