New single Leave It Behind is a collaboration between childhood friends, Frankie Knight and Robert Swaine (working as Submyth). Together, they have pulled together a wavy breakbeat sound with progressive instrumentation to create a reflective-yet-uplifting piece of music.
With Frankie’s vocals floating in space, she is initially joined with the kind of guitar-ambience used by The xx. Things are quickly complimented by chunky beats and a vocal sample, evoking a sound somewhere between post-punk, early-90s rave and early-00s progressive breakbeat. The result is a little mystical, haunting and introspective.
Having grown up in Hammersmith, Frankie moved to the Sussex coast, where she found the inspiration to start writing and recording music. Having produced a number of solo releases, including her debut album Blue Marble, Knight is now back on the live stage following an enforced break through COVID-19. Performing live together with her drummer and co-producer Submyth, the pair are currently on tour with Kosheen.
Leave It Behind is a purposeful attempt to move on, as Frankie describes:
‘I wrote this song as a reminder to myself to stop ruminating over painful things in my past. I wanted to conjure feelings of freedom often felt on the dancefloor and write something a little bit witchy inspired by all the Buffy and Sabrina I watched as a kid.’