Listen: Avec Sans – Hold On (VS//Youthclub Remix)

Secretive London duo Avec Sans returned this week, after some seven months of silence, to premiere a distinctly 80′s-flavoured new track ‘Hold On’.

We were given a rare, fleeting glance at Alice Fox and Jack St. James in the song’s accompanying visuals and now they’re peering over the parapet again with the first ‘Hold On’ remix. The effervescently poppy original has been warped into a basement club banger at the hands of Northern production duo Tom Lord and Dougie Brown aka VS//YOUTHCLUB. Alice’s pinwheeling sugar-coated vocals, now drenched in echo, pool around stuttering industrial beats and distantly slurred synths. This night vs. day rework peels back Avec Sans’ hopeful, neon-lit pop facade to reveal subtly sordid nuances.

‘Hold On’ will be released on Avec Sans’ own imprint Little World Recordings later this year.