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Hard-Fi: 'New single sounds like Jay-Z'

Published Wednesday, Jun 1 2011, 15:41 BST | By Lewis Corner | 2 comments

Hard-Fi have revealed that their new single 'Good For Nothing' was inspired by Jay-Z's '99 Problems'.

The indie-rock band will release the track on June 19 and it will serve as the lead single from their upcoming third studio album Killer Sounds, which is due out in September.

Frontman Richard Archer explained that he was listening to '99 Problems' while writing the song, but ensured that he made "enough changes not to be sued".

"When I wrote the tune, I wrote the tune to '99 Problems'. That was the sample I used just to get it off the ground, so that's why it probably sounds a lot like '99 Problems'," he told BBC Newsbeat.

Killer Machine is the follow-up to Hard-Fi's previous two records Stars of CCTV and Once Upon a Time in the West, both of which topped the UK albums chart in 2005 and 2007 respectively.

Watch the music video for Hard-Fi's new single 'Good For Nothing' below: