Seesaw is Sheffield’s Crooked Man at their most pop. Partnering a fluttering, floating production with ethereal, angelic vocals, the song could be poised to be this year’s Opus III / It’s A Fine Day or Orbital / Halcyon. Loved-up, and sing along, simultaneously rushing and soothing. The bass all the while booming. Warm, woozy, high and harbouring hushed horns and gospel hand claps, it’d shimmy very nicely next to Ninja Tune’s current catalogue of festival-ready, happy, hands in the air, “New Rave”. 

Part 2 adds funky finger snaps and a Hoover-like LFO hum, while creating more space for the brass to blow. A mind-bending psychedelic mid-section sounds like layer after layer of delayed, overlapping sirens. Deliriously disorienting, momentarily knocking refreshed revellers sideways, but over well before the fear has a chance to take hold. 

Vicious Charm Chief Damian “Midfield General” Harris also delivers one of his now trademark blissed-out Generalisation Dubs. Spinning the original’s swirling around a badass live bass-line and a backdrop of echo-ed percussion. 

Crooked Man’s Seesaw can be ordered directly from Vicious Charm.