Lock Step
Robert Burbidge and Mikey B return with Lock Step, a bold new release that fuses martial drums with sustained horns, sweeping strings, and anthemic vocals to create a sound both ceremonial and unsettling.
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Robert Burbidge, Winter, Mikey B … Release Lock Step & Medicine: A Dystopian Anthem for Our Times
Robert Burbidge and Mikey B return with Lock Step, a bold new release that fuses martial drums with sustained horns, sweeping strings, and anthemic vocals to create a sound both ceremonial and unsettling.
Featuring standout performances from The Haggis Horns — with Malcolm Strachan on brass and Atholl Ransome on tenor sax — the track expands into widescreen territory. Contributions from Morgan O’Shaughnessey (strings), Ian Stanford (guitar), Erroll Rollins (drums), and a textured foundation of piano, percussion, and bass give Lock Step its depth and cinematic scope.
At once processional and incantatory, Lock Step explores the aesthetics of ceremony: a song whose very familiarity carries an uneasy resonance. It’s an anthem crafted to echo the “soft dystopia” of our present condition — simultaneously stirring and disquieting.
Released on Tangential Music, 19th November 2025
About the Artists
Robert Burbidge and Mikey B are collaborators whose work blends genre-defying composition with evocative storytelling. Their music challenges conventions while creating immersive, resonant soundscapes.
Lock Step featuring Mikey B
Produced by Robert Burbidge and Mikey B
Co-produced by Steve Gligorivic
Written by Robert Burbidge, Mike Bush, Winter Bryd
Piano: Winter
Strings: Morgan O’Shaughnessey
Bass guitar: Graham Silibiger
Trumpet, flugelhorn, valve trombone: Malcolm Strachan
Tenor sax and flute: Atholl Ransome
Acoustic and electric guitar: Ian Stanford
Vocals: Mikey B
Backing vocals: Winter
Lyricist: Mikey B
Drums: Erroll Rollins
Percussion: Mikey B
Mastered by: Dennis Moody
Mixed and engineered: Iggy B
Horns written, arranged and performed by The Haggis Horns
Artwork: Mike Bush
Medicine feat Mikey B
Produced by HBUG
Robert Burbidge: Mike Bush
Written by: Mike Bush, Winter Bryd, HBUG, Robert Burbidge
Piano: Winter
Bass guitar: Graham Silibiger
Mastered by: Dennis moody
Lyricist: Mikey B
Vocals: Mikey B