San Scout do some late night soul-searching on "Render"

29 February 2016, 10:45 | Written by Grant Rindner

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San Scout's "Render" is what you get when you mix the soulful lightworks of Royce Wood Junior, the guitar of Ben Khan and the pop sensibility of Honne. It's a single that is simultaneously laid-back and incapable of sitting still.

"Render" is as polished of a production as you're likely to hear all year, and that's key because the record blends together a myriad of sounds and styles. One second there's an autotune falsetto refrain, and the next there's booming drums and sugary synths.

San Scout - university friends Freddie Clough and Jonny Woodley - don't have much music to their name, but it's hard to fault what they've put out so far. For a young duo to be producing such sleek, polished indie music this early in their career is clearly a sign of something special.

"Render" is so phenomenal because it's a combination of impressive studio wizardry and genuine human emotion.

"In the end just a sketch of a drawing/I’ll pretend that today is for mourning/more than a memory in the mind/a crush that's in decline from over thinking" is one particularly powerful refrain.

It's unclear what's next for San Scout beyond an EP this spring - but whatever it is you'll want to stay in the know after hearing "Render".