It's funny how time can bend and shift, depending on what you're doing. Or, sometimes more accurately, what you're avoiding. As a child, there never seemed to be quite enough time to run yourself breathless outside in the evenings before being called in for dinner (again? How is it evening already?). You can probably easily recall sneaking glances at your watch years later, during particularly dry school lessons re-hashing some story from the Tudor Era and finding it incredible how five minutes could feel like 25.Then, by the time you hit the sort of age where you started teaching yourself to flirt, you discovered the way time drags while waiting for a message back from your crush. Depending on how old you are, that could've been on MSN Messenger, via text or on Snapchat (idk what teens even use to communicate anymore, let's be real). Whatever the medium, the feeling in your gut was the same: the clutching tightness bubbling into anxiety, as you chewed over the sentence you'd just sent out into the ether and awaited its reply. London duo S4U have now essentially turned that feeling into three and a half minutes of dark, scratchy and sultry trap-inflected R&B.Their single "Isle of Dogs" grapples with thoughts of the things vocalist Rosita Bonita reckons she would do, "if you would only love me,". It's all brought to life in a video directed by Homer & Farley that features Rosita's bandmate Prinz George, as well as Martins Imhangbe and Zealah Anstey. According to the directors, the video "reflects the departure and finality of a past relationship", which the band have likened to the sensation of "a digestive crumbled in a bottomless brew". Sink into the song's lowkey vengeful undertones, nods to 90s R&B heartache and quivering electronic production while we premiere the video above.You can follow Noisey on Twitter.
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