Albums
Reach for Me
No Artificial Colours & Alex Mills
2014
Release Date: 2014
By Pitchfork
Reviewed June 17, 2014
After releasing an EP titled Crying Wolf last year on house music pioneer Kerri Chandler's Madtech imprint, London duo No Artificial Colours signed with PMR, home to compatriots Jessie Ware and Disclosure. "Reach for Me", their first single for the label, luxuriates in its mid-tempo pulse, allowing a sticky blanket of humidity to seep into its furthest corners. The track's defined by this compositional elbow room—it provides a through-line connecting the rubbery throb of its lower-end to the warm, emotive vocals of Alex Mills. Mills stretches toward the sky on the chorus, echoing the track's thematic material and injecting it with a been-there-before conviction via a performance that remains understated even when flashing the extent of her powers.