Urban Myth Club - Surrender

When I covered Urban Myth Club's brilliant new album Open Up back in February, Surrender was the track that truly stood out for me. Every great record has one, that single moment that stands for everything that album is about - distilling it into a single instant of brilliance.

And so, for the duo, Surrender becomes their calling card; their resume of chilled out ambient bliss. And boy does it send out a good message. A lush ballad tinged with Eastern melodies and Bjork-esque vocals, string sections swell like swathes of grass blowing in the wind. Against this, the bass pulses slow and subdued in the background - indeed, Surrender stands as the epitome of a comedown track.

Airy, dream-like - this is so much the sound of a blazing sunset going down over an Ibiza horizon that you can almost taste it. These are the memories you'll keep after the very best of days. The chorus implores us to 'lose yourself in love', and if losing ourselves sounds as good as this, we certainly don't want to be found. Not yet anyway...

The result is that you're left marvelling, as with the whole Open Up album, at the sheer beauty on offer here. Surrender's power though is that taken on its own, removed from the hypnotic entity of the entire record, it still functions in every sense as a pop record.

Surrender is released on the 27th June.