The last time Wordplay covered Native Flora, we likened Cactus Corino and Treeboy to friends bumping into each other at a barbecue, deciding mid-drink to haul the party into the studio, and leaving chaos, questionable antics, and commotion in their wake. “Hello” says they haven’t calmed down. They’ve just learned where to aim.
“Hello” is a straight boom bap cut, engineered by Sumgii and built around a beat generous enough for three voices to find their own pocket. Corino and Treeboy are joined again by jesi, whose chemistry with the pair now feels so natural that it would be stranger if he weren’t there. “Hello” knows exactly what it is.
The song does what the title promises. Part flirtation, part reintroduction, part open invitation. There’s a thread about the rush of meeting someone new, that moment a stranger rearranges your whole afternoon. But underneath that is a song about presence: the kind of entrance that shifts a room and lingers.
In conversation with Wordplay, the duo put it simply: “You have to live life. If you want to write good stuff, you have to live it. The more you do, the more you see, the more you’ve actually got to say. There are so many amazing stories to tell if you’re actually out there living them.”
That energy sits all over “Hello”. It doesn’t overreach. It just moves well and trusts you to keep up. Their independent debut has already passed 180,000 streams, while “Lido” moved from Soho Radio to Kiss FM national airplay before its official release. Offline, the momentum has been just as tangible: their Black Rock launch, backed by LVMH, sold out, and another show is already lined up at The Star on Portobello Road as the Floralia edition, a deluxe expansion of their debut loaded with new material, comes into view. It’s shaping up to be the busiest year yet for the Notting Hill duo, and the community around them keeps growing with it.
“If our music can help you enjoy life a bit more, even in a small sense, give you something nice to bob your head to on your way to work, that’s everything to us.”
On “Hello”, they make good on that. And they make it look easy.