Listen: 2 Late by Dance Yourself Clean

Fresh off the release of their Donna Lewis-sampling big room release, Always Forever, indie dance collective Dance Yourself Clean are back with their latest release, 2 Late.

2 Late brings together Dance Yourself Clean’s trademark enthusiasm for breathless vocals and chunky electronics to create something effortlessly cinematic. Warm, bubbling sounds and big drum patterns evoke the soft-focus aesthetic of the 80s, whilst background synths give this just a touch of dark drama.

Dance Yourself Clean claim this latest song as “the best song we’ve ever made”, and there is an element of polish here that lends some weight to the hyperbole. Check out 2 Late below:

Listen: Always Forever by Dance Yourself Clean

Having appeared on BlackPlastic.co.uk back in December with their thick, big room focused track Losing Focus, the Dance Yourself Clean crew are back with something a little different.

For those unaware, Dance Yourself Clean started as an indie-dance party in Seattle in 2013, before branching out with a touring party, and subsequently starting record label Lights & Music, a production outfit, and ultimately, a music and remix project.

Always Forever retains the no-nonsense, big room aesthetic of Dance Yourself Clean’s previous work, but in contrast to Losing Focus, it is imbued with a light playfulness. That comes from the muted guitar and angelic vocals of Donna Lewis’ 90s classic, I Love You Always Forever. Here it is combined distortion embracing bass and epic synth chords to create something emotionally resonant, amplifying the feelings of the original. It is, undoubtedly, the kind of obvious-once-you-hear it treatment that feels well-suited to wider mainstream success, and yet at the same time I love it all the same.

Listen: Losing Focus — Dance Yourself Clean

Losing Focus arrives amidst the kind of all encompassing, thick sound that evokes big rooms, smoke machines and body music. Warm bass, a polished guitar lick and a female vocal harmonies come together to depict the breathless moment of losing yourself in someone else.

Dance Yourself Clean started in Seattle back in 2013 as an indie dance party, before expanding their scope to become a touring dance party across North America. Eventually, they relocated to Los Angeles and created their own label, Lights & Music Collective, and began producing for other artists. Releasing music and remixes under their own name became the obvious next step.

Check out Losing Focus below, and look out for the gorgeous bridge, where the gravity of the song relents. The vocal floats in space as it calls on us to “Hold me down, no sound… Just hold me, hold me down”, before being grounded in the song’s dependable beat.