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That over and done with, bassline is amazing for two reasons: house and garage. For anyone who wasn't musically aware in the 90s, these are two brilliant and hilarious genres full of exuberent innovation and a drastic lack of worrying too much about being cool, in retrospect but they were very British, very organic and got you moving.* The great thing about bassline is that, although it still isn't necessarily going to trip the wires of people who think pop music is bad and wrong, it is actually pretty cool.

Especially T2s productions; where 'Heartbroken' was a sinister, high-speed eulogy to a relationship gone properly wrong, a ballad sweetened and made innocent with honeyed vocals and then dropped into a sea of muffled bass and kinetic beats. Second single didn't have anything like the success of Heartbroken, probably due to its more aggressively "underground" sound putting it lower on radio playlists and it's been awhile since we've heard anything else from him in the charts.

This new single, may, hopefully, be enough to claw it back a bit for bassline as a whole; if there was one song I've heard this year that had 'MASSIVE SUMMER ANTHEM' scrawled all over it, it's this after-midnight heatwave of a track. From the balearic-y guitar at the start to the languid bassline and Michelle's seductive, almost lazy vocals, not to mention its really-quite-awesome sci-fi video.

Her voice is breathy and warm enough to make it a definite invite, despite the minor key of the song and there's enough of a beat for it to easily secure club play, but not so much that it wouldn't be OK to listen to in your bedroom or on your iPod, no matter how self-conscious you were. There's even a scantily clad woman in the video and everything.

Seriously, if this doesn't make you think of summer then I'll eat my sun-avoiding gothsocks.

Download: Out now
CD Released: April 13th


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(Hazel Robinson)

*And absolutely nothing to do with Jamie Oliver.