"Hot Breath" is a disarming, juddering and utterly wonderful new offering from Strange Boy

A lot of people may 'talk the talk' when it comes to experimentation, but Strange Boy are the real deal. They are like some breed of musical scientist, throwing in a dash of alarming inhalation samples here, a pinch of luscious production there and a whole lot of interesting stuff in between. Making this work is no mean feat, but there's something in Kieran Brunt and Matt Huxley perfect creative companionship that means it all makes sense.

Everything about "Hot Breath" is unpredictable. The heavy breathing should leave you reeling, whilst the disarming lyricism focuses in on the senses and heightens the levels of tension and alarm. Yet, where Strange Boy succeed is in how they bring all these dissonant features together to build it into a huge, euphoric explosion, like the light seeping in through the darkness or a moment of epiphany and realisation.

"Hot Breath" is being released as a single alongside "Love Remains" and both tracks are taken from the duo's upcoming EP entitled Suburbia, which follows 2017's highly acclaimed Annunciation EP.