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The kids are alright: still lacking any concern for the rules of electronic dance music, London's Krautpop duo Walls continue their voyage to distant planets, hovering over alien continents and gazing at the radiant beauty of another world's sunset. “We want to create stuff you've never heard before”, says Sam Willis, whose sampledelica and magical synth work feels right at home with the haunting guitar play and hazy vocals his partner Alessio Natalizia (of Banjo Or Freakout fame) is known for.

The duo's uncanny ability to fuse sophisticated experimentation with catchy nostalgia only became more palpable thanks to their sophomore album “Coracle”, released this year to great critical acclaim, and second lead single “Into Our Midst” is no exception to the anti-formulaic unruliness we come to expect from the freak minds of those two visionaries. Starting off procedures with some trademark drone work, the title track soon introduces a surprisingly danceable beat pattern straying no too far away from what luminaries like Caribou or Animal Collective are doing to tighten up their jam sessions, but nothing prepares the listener for the lush vocals, the succulent textures and the hallucinatory bloom that follows. “Into Our Midst” might just be Walls' finest achievement to date: you can literally hear the duo nailing it. Backed up by an exclusive edit of the title track and unreleased freeform thump-out “Idle Sway”, this 12” manages to accomplish the impossible: bringing the bounce back to the chill-out. One can only wonder what Walls will do next to woo and enchant their audience growing bigger every split second.