Danny L Harle has enlisted his longtime studio-mate and co-writer Caroline Polachek for the brand new tune “Azimuth.” Take a pay attention under, by way of XL. Harle has additionally introduced a European tour—scroll down for the dates.
Harle says of the brand new tune, “‘Azimuth’ felt just like the finalisation of an strategy that Caroline and I had been orbiting for a while as a manner of placing her voice into my music—I typically name it the ‘trance siren.’ You’ll be able to hear manifestations of it in tracks like ‘Insomnia’ from Pang and ‘On the Seashore’ from Loss of life Stranding 2, however this was the primary time I managed to translate it into my model of dance music. Azimuth’s melody may solely have been sung by Caroline, it’s designed round her voice, I couldn’t think about anybody else singing it or giving a efficiency like that. It additionally allowed us to play with scale, house and tranquility in a manner I’ve by no means performed earlier than. For me, ‘Azimuth’ is a trance ballad, despairing however hopeful, greatest heard in a in membership in a sunken cathedral.”
“Azimuth” is Harle’s follow-up to the PinkPantheress collaboration “Starlight,” launched in July. That was his first solo launch since his formal solo debut LP, 2021’s Harlecore. Polachek shared her personal first publish–Want, I Need to Flip Into You single, “Dang,” in October final yr. Since then, she has launched “Starburned and Unkissed,” from the I Noticed the TV Glow soundtrack, and made an surprising look on the post-rock band Caroline’s album Caroline 2. Extra lately, she launched “On the Seashore”—the title observe of the online game Loss of life Stranding 2—which was co-produced with Harle and co-written by Loss of life Stranding mastermind Hideo Kojima.
