Sad Night Dynamite ascend to a netherworld with pulsing new single “Black & White”

The Somerset pair evade ever being called stripped-back, but if they were to do something that felt minimalistic, it would definitely be an ambience that they whittled down to a focused point, rather than losing any texture or density.

This is exactly what "Black and White" does. By delving into a more subtly hectic sonic world, Sad Night Dynamite explore the upside-down of wild nights and losing control. It’s unsettling and vivid, like the tail end of a trip you thought you’d almost ridden out, bolstered by the teasing loop of the drum sample and hypnotic repetitiveness of the melodies.

Of course, unsettling is something of standard practice for Sad Night Dynamite. "Black & White" is taken from their upcoming mixtape, following up a back catalogue of disquieting dance-dub that’s as intriguing as it is elusive. “We want to put our music into that nightmarish dream world where you have beauty and violence and humour,” the pair told BEST FIT last year. “It feels like an interesting place to start, in a world which you can’t really recognise and putting the humanity back into it.”

There are more sonically human worlds in their releases to date – "Psychedelic Views" brings IDK on board for an ethereal, but earthy cut and "Demon" with Moonchild Sanelly is simultaneously alien but accessible. "Black & White" feels like the flipside follow up, the next step on their exploratory journey.

Grounded in familiar territory, "Black & White “is a tale of despair and rebirth,” SND explain. “It’s loosely based around Archie’s visit to Glastonbury festival when he was 20 years old. ‘Black & White’ is ultimately about someone taking things too far, maybe even to the afterlife.”

The impressive, intimidating worlds that Sad Night Dynamite have been caught onto by Glass Animals, masters of wavy, ethereal electropop. They’ll be taking SND on tour with them across the states, before the pair return to Europe for a formidable festival run – set to inspire a few Black and White experiences themselves, perhaps.