A year on from South London duo Leiik’s last release and the pair are back with a brooding, wispy electronic number called ‘Window’. You may know band mates Amy Spencer (Junk Son, Bicep) and Avi Barath (Athlete Whippet, Bunki) from one of their many other projects, and this possibly explains why over the last two years, we’ve only had a handful of tracks - namely debut ‘Holes’ and last year’s ‘Words Over Yours’ and ‘Split’. However, another reason for their spacious release schedule may also be down to the technical intricacy of their songs. The production is crystalline, which all the pieces floating in some zero-gravity chamber and yet still working together in synchronicity. A trip-hop rhythm sporadically lands throughout the track, the cinematic keys and steady, yet cold, and the synths create a magical aura around sorrowful vocals. “I see it through a window, I can only see you pain go on,” is a line that speaks of immense longing and disconnection. Perhaps the window is that of laptop and phone screens, a window of sorts that has made us all watchers and not necessarily doers. ‘Window’ is an immense track that continuously builds in intensity, until words fail and we’re left with those shimmering electronics to see us out. - HT