Introducing Plaitum and Their Kickass Single "LMHY"

It's not a spelling error, their name is Plaitum and they made it up, so let's give them a round of applause for originality because coming up with a decent band moniker is tough. Plaitum are Matt Canham and Abi Dersiley—two childhood buddies who met at 11 and forged a friendship thanks to a shared love of horror flicks, Massive Attack, and Talking Heads—which should already tell you they have terrific taste.

The London-based duo first made waves thanks to "Geisha," a slip of a song that's very Lana covering Massive Attack, which tastemaker label Kistuné subsequently snapped up for one of their excellent compilations.

What we have below though, is far more substantial. Now both 20 years old, the pair have been beavering in the studio and the result is a four track EP, the arrival of which is heralded by opening cut "LMHY," premiering below. It begins with a set of twitchy canned hi-hats and a howl in the dark but swiftly morphs into a synth-pop song that can be most glibly described as Purity Ring, Chvrches, and Crystal Castles having a party between bouts of primal scream therapy. But the yelps aren't angry, they're howling-at-the-moon-ecstatic and Dersiley's tones are very choir girl gone rebel wild.

"It's probably the happiest song we've written," notes Dersiley: It’s cute but loud."

Her bandmate Matt Canham explains more: "LMHY is about the honeymoon period of a relationship, during which you feel overwhelmed with love for this new person in your life but also scared that everything will fuck up and it was just that—a honeymoon period."

Oh to bottle the sharp, heady rush of the honeymoon period.

The band will release their debut EP via producer Paul Epworth's label Wolf Tone. And by the way Epworth has produced everyone from Florence to Adele to The Rapture to Lana to Lorde to our personal faves—The Futureheads. So y'know, if he's cherry-picked Plaitum, they must have more stunners in their arsenal.

Plaitum's eponymous EP is out on 12.4 via Wolf Tone.

Kim Taylor Bennett has to go listen to The Futureheads now. She's on Twitter.