May Lyn is crafting sensuous and unnerving R&B on new single "Touch Base"

25 July 2017, 11:00 | Written by Andrew Hannah

(Tracks)

(May Lyn)

Ahead of her new EP, electronic artist May Lyn has unveiled a beguiling and twisting new track.

"Touch Base" is the second track to be lifted from the Brisbane-based artist's forthcoming Vessels EP and it's completely mesmerising.

Occupying the same space as the likes of fka Twigs, Cuushe and Noah inasmuch as she makes R&B with a heightened ambience, May Lyn never allows the listener to feel completely settled on this writhing number.

Combining trap beats with an undulating bass groove and a spooky synth line, "Touch Base" supplies plenty of chills in the instrumentation but once May Lyn adds in her vocals - which shift from a passionate delivery to a knowingly sensual whisper - the track gains even more muscle. In singing about taking strength from within, May Lyn has made something of an empowerment banger.

"Touch Base" is taken from the Vessels EP, out 31 July.