Nimmo - Dancing Makes Us Brave

It’s all bleeding obvious stuff, but sometimes it needs reaffirming: In troubled times like these, where every news briefing feels like the stuff of fictional nightmares, cultural spaces become even more crucial. Nimmo’s ‘Dancing Makes Us Brave’ lands at exactly the right time, post-Fabric’s closure and a reevaluation of just how important London’s nightlife is to those within it, and those who see it as little more than worthless.

‘Dancing Makes Us Brave’ isn’t a flag-bearing, political call to arms in the purest sense. Instead, it captures the magic of after-hours escape. Led by a subtle funk line sitting somewhere between the Bee Gees and the Scissor Sisters, the London duo declare “I need to feel something that’s real” like they’ve been numbed by pain. Few songs deliver the same balancing act between all-out euphoria and self-aware melancholy. But in capturing the darkness of today, Nimmo have found their verve.