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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”

  1. Got Love
  2. When The Night Calls
  3. My Imagination
  4. Music (Let’s Use It)
  5. Let It Shine
  6. Give In, Get Up, Get On!
  7. No Strings
  8. Drowning
  9. Love’s Fireworks
  10. I Feel Free

All tracks written by Roderick Williams.
Album produced and arranged by Matt Walters with Roderick Williams.
Vocal arrangements by Angela & Roderick.

The Urban State Albums

Available on
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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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Lyrics

Got Love
Got love it’s a precious feeling

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
We all need a hand

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
I’ve loved and lost

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)
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
It felt so right when I

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
Why did we never talk

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
Your broken heart

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
I’ve heard the rumours

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
He gets home oh so late

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