Nao collaborator William Arcane shares magnificent electro ballad "Settle"

The Nao, Rosie Lowe, and Denai Moore collaborator mixes tender vocal snippets with thickly layered electro melodies on "Settle". Despite buzzing with ideas and shards of jagged samples, it's a remarkably fluid cut - synths ebb and flow like the tide, while vocals fade into focus and fizzle into the ether. It's rich and fractured, but Arcane makes the disarray alluring.

Explaining the track, Arcane says:

"It was made in one day with all the sounds being recorded on to an old 1960s reel-to-reel tape machine and then chopped up afterwards. The textural vocals were all just me umm-ing and ahh-ing into the machine's old microphone and then recording that off the tape whilst jamming my fingers into the tape spools whilst recording it back to get some weird pitch modulations. It was one of those brilliant moments where the creative energy was just flowing and everything came together really quickly. I was also reminiscing about an argument I had with a partner and that was left unresolved at the time, so the lyrics came very quickly as well as I was just spilling out my subconscious thoughts onto tape."