The leaps and bounds made in the field of music technology are not always everyone’s cup of tea. Still, there are plenty of silver linings to be found. One of which is the increased connectivity that has come with the internet age, without which Seth Schwarz and Tallulah Rendall would likely have never met and collaborated. And that would have been a great loss to the music world.
Although Seth Schwarz is a new name to me, Tallulah Rendall isn’t. While Radiate Love might seem to be outside her usual sonic realm, being more associated with wonderfully drifting, modern, ambient folk, the more you think about her adventurous spirit, finding “London’s most creative woman” vocally fronting a cutting-edge, dance-driven pop remix isn’t too much of a stretch.
Especially when it is as great as this. Dancefloor beats infused with skittering digital percussion and shimmering sonics are found grooving in tandem that ingredient that most people making music in such a field often miss out on. Space. And it is that space that allows everything to breathe properly, gives room for everything to do its job and adds additional atmospherics, unheard perhaps but not unfelt. And, even as the song rises from verse to chorus, it does so in a subtle and sophisticated way, the dynamic lift being euphoric rather than explosive, nuanced rather than obvious.
Add Schwarz’s gently meandering violin and Rendall’s heavenly vocals, and you have that rare thing in the world of dance music: a track that has poise and purpose rather than just relying on the cliches of power and propulsion. Dance music for the more discerning clubgoer? Yes, indeed.
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