The avant-pop rock force from Bristol, Chandra, is back with another powerful swing at the sky. Released on Friday, 6th June 2025, their latest single, "Winners," is not just a song, it's a statement.
From its opening wave of guitar and rhythmic heartbeat of the drums, "Winners" takes you by the soul and scoops you into an enormous chorus, where endurance gets the spotlight. And this is not just a summer song, but rather a summer statement, one made for open highways, for festival fields, and for every underdog who has ever mustered the courage to straighten up after a fall. Remaining faithful to their goal of releasing a new single and video every other month, Chandra has produced a modest but burgeoning collection of brash, emotive rock. "Winners" might be their most anthemic song yet, a few minutes of epinephrine to the soul, set to a sheen of pop-rock precision.
Co-produced by Chandra and Aaron Short. The production is crisp, glossy, and purpose-driven, all the more effective at amplifying the message at its center, keep moving. The song meshes crashing guitar from Mike Paul, the steady low-end backbone from Chris Wong, and Chandra Nair's fervent vocals that wax and wane like a battle cry from deep within the trenches of daily life. It's human at its best, we chase greatness despite the odds, frontman Chandra Nair says, and there's an enlivening sense of it throughout this song. It's more than a song, "Winners" feels like a conjuring of the spirit, a shared exhale, a nudge forward.