You Drive – “New”

For the sake of transparency, the following album will be released on yk Records which is the label that I operate, so my bias here is strong.

You Drive is a collaborative project between electronic artist Makeup and Vanity Set and sometimes-Birdcloud, sometimes-solo-songstress Jasmin Kaset. They’ve worked together in the past on various single tracks for Makeup and Vanity Set albums (see “Hand in Hand“) but this new undertaking is presented as an entirely new, unified, project.

The first track from the album, “New”, debuted on Vehlinggo, a synthwave blog known for showcasing albums that exist within the Outrun genre. The track couples the dark, often cold, electronics of Makeup and Vanity Set with the melancholy, often detached, vocals of Kaset. On the surface it would seem this would create a depressive vibe but there’s a hopeful melancholy to it. At least to my biased ears.