Shura - Touch (Four Tet remix)

Here’s something to make everyone feel prematurely geriatric - Shura’s breakout, views-in-the-millions song ‘Touch’ first came out over two years ago. Blimey. It’s a song that never really went away after first sneaking its way onto Soundcloud, and quite rightly so. There are hooks all over the place; from the melody-hook itself, to the all-too-familiar lyrical despair of wanting to re-hook up with someone who’s a bit rotten. Approximately 730 days later, ‘Touch’ still remains Shura’s tour de force, and as a nice little pressie around her long-awaited debut announcement, it has snapped up a reworking from the sweet prince of electro-bliss himself, Four Tet. Twisting the vibed out Balariac-o-meter to the max setting, and laying down a fidgety, limb-infecting beat to drive ‘Touch’ in a more urgent, basement-ready direction, Kieran Hebden breathes yet more oomph into pop’s own Peter Pan - the flying-high song that never gets old. Just as we’re on the cusp of saving daylight for another year running (such heroes) Four Tet’s got us thinking about humid summer nights and chilled tinnies down the park. It doesn’t really get better than that.