Timo Maas has never hidden his penchant for getting dark and dirty with his dance music, so choosing Placebo frontman Brian Molko to provide vocals on his new single comes as no huge surprise.
With newcomer Jo Kate their voices ooze gloriously over the macabre track from Maas's forthcoming second album, Pictures, and strike the exact chords needed to ignite the sinister royalties that lurk behind First Day.
It's an atmospheric track and definitely one to be appreciated under the stars at an outdoor event this summer, chugging along the same lines as his remix of Depeche Mode's Enjoy the Silence, and anyone who wobbled about to that in a field last year will understand.
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