Danny L Harle has enlisted Caroline Polachek for an entrancing new song called ‘Azimuth’ (via XL). It follows Harle’s PinkPantheress collaboration ‘Starlight’, as well as Polachek’s ‘On the Beach’, the title track of the video game Death Stranding 2, which was co-produced by Harle. Check it out below.
“‘Azimuth’ felt like the finalization of an approach that Caroline and I had been orbiting for some time as a way of putting her voice into my music — I sometimes call it the ‘trance siren,’” Harle said in a statement. “You can hear manifestations of it in tracks like ‘Insomnia’ from Pang and ‘On on the Beach’ from Death Stranding 2, but this was the first time I managed to translate it into my style of dance music. Azimuth’s melody could only have been sung by Caroline, it is designed around her voice, I couldn’t imagine anyone else singing it or giving a performance like that. It also allowed us to play with scale, space and quietness in a way I’ve never done before. For me, ‘Azimuth’ is a trance ballad, despairing but hopeful, best heard in a in club in a sunken cathedral.
