Listen: Always With You by Honddu

Honddu Always With You Encompassing duo Holly Müller and David Neale, Honddu met at a feminist literature lecture. Utilising synths, vocals and tape textures, the pair have been making electronic music with analogue elements ever since. The pair draw on the experimental sounds of the likes of PJ Harvey and Kate Bush, through to Massive Attack and Portishead. Here on their latest single, Always With You, Honddu have recorded an entire song on a vintage Tascam cassette-based four-track recorder. I remember a friend using something similar to this to record music in his bedroom when I was a teenager… I don’t know if it was a Tascam specifically, but it was a wonderfully tactile way to create music. Until now, I have never considered how they could be used to lay down electronic music. Honddu do that, and the result lends a grounded, nostalgic feel to their sound. Always With You sees Müller’s vocals deal with buried emotions — the kind of yearning about lost love that creates a feeling…

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