Watch: Rounds – Falter

London’s ambient electro outfit Rounds released their second EP this week; an eclectic hybrid of emotive alt rock and experimental bass entitled, Falter. Not content with gifting us a record packed with intelligent pop hooks and soulful beats; the trio also unleashed these astonishingly sleek visuals to accompany the title track.

Directed by Kim Jarrett and Greg Davenport, the video explores all manner of tactile reactions and attractions: from magnetic forces working on metal filings to the undulating male and female whose bodies entwine throughout. Much like the music, it’s dusky, secretive and extremely sensuous. Steel drums ring out showering sweeping synth loops with glistening sweat while Robert Cooper’s vocal, shrouded in a thick mist of reverb calls you back to the dancefloor to steal one last intoxicating kiss before the sun comes up.

Rounds certainly aren’t the only new act intent on breaking into an ambient electro market dominated by the likes of Gold Panda, Burial and Mount Kimbie; but few other young pretenders are doing it with such an acute understanding of human emotion and subtlety.