A melody that belongs in a fairytale (by the Brothers Grimm or Edward Gorey reimagined by Tim Burton, of course), a vocal that seeps across it like a whisper on the wind and a disco backbeat that calls you to the dancefloor where a Latin rhythm marks time... the new single from Sarah Nixey is a real gem of a track that easily matches the standard of her previous work with Black Box Recorder and Infantjoy.
From anyone else's lips, lines like "Come down, into the night/We can go higher than the moonlight" could sound cheesy, but Nixey makes them sound darkly sinister in a way that only she can.
The accompanying video, set in a dishevelled boho theatre that has seen better days is the perfect setting, a faded Cabaret full of lost memories and forgotten promises. Alone, stripped away from its setting on the superb album Sing, Memory, When I'm Here With You sounds even more ghostly, even more haunting and fantastically, fabulously seductive.
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