Walls

"You've Never Been Alone," co-produced by Rob McAndrews aka Airhead and mixed by Stéphane "Alf" Briat (Air, Phoenix, Sébastien Tellier, Françoise Hardy, etc.), is an original continental answer to the UK-based scene of what the Guardian called "eerily spacious R&B-sung-by-cutely-breathy females." with it's interrupted, intricately detailed, and effects-washed sound, "You've Never Been Alone" is an idiosyncratic yet fiercely melodic and groove-based pop hit. Andrea Balency uses a smorgasbord of sounds to explore relationships, restlessness, and dislocation. File this ethereal deep soul dubstep next to FKA Twigs, Little Dragon, the XX, and Sbtrkt, with some Cocteau Twins and Kate Bush reminiscences.