First Transmission: RYD, Work It Out.

The best part of a year on from breakthrough release Alter, nascent London artist RYD – né Ryan Downie – has since been snagged by 37 Adventures (home to the likes of Geowulf, JONES and salute), via whom he’s released the emotionally heavy, exhalatory Work It Out. “The blood drains from your face” Downie begins, above a spare, aptly pallid guitar part that, if slightly zeitgeisty, injects a creditable directness into the opening moments, although it’s its stirring chorus – centred around the reassurance, “We can work it out,” played out atop looped harmonic notes – which ensures this one works its way onto a hippocampal repeat pretty sharpish…

RYD’s SoundCloud.