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TRY’s new song, “With Me (Club Redux)” with Empress Of is an upbeat dance track that could just as easily be about a hallucination or a haunting as it is about a lover you just can’t let go of. 

The song starts off standard enough with a persistent, marching drumbeat and rhythmic synths. Then the first line sets the scene: “voices in my mind, yeah you’re always there, miss you when you’re quiet.” The verses go on to paint a picture of some sort of toxic attachment that creates “shadows in the night” and leaves “shivers down [her] spine.”The tension builds until the Empress Of sings the hook, “you’re with me forever” and the music behind her is almost celebratory. She is leaning into the darkness. 

Formed in late 2019, TRY consists of GRAMMY-nominated DJ, producer, and songwriter Sam i (Anderson .Paak, Doja Cat) and Nashville-based producer Shmuck the Loyal (blackbear). Sam i said this about working on this new electronic single with alternative artist, Empress Of: 

“On 'With Me' we explored memories together with Empress Of. Ghosts from our past can be people and situations that remain living in our perception. Sometimes they’re hard to let go of, even when we want to. To extend this feeling into new environments, we flipped the production to give dance culture something to bounce at clubs.”

Through out the track, musical elements conjure up that dreadful feeling of something that won’t leave you alone. Disjointed background vocals are reminiscent of the garbled recording of a disembodied voice. A delicate, tinkling melody could have been lifted from an old children’s toy. In the bridge, the musical elements sound as if they’re losing their tether to the 3D world and are ascending into the unseen. Even the accompanying music video literally depicts the shadows that overwhelm our protagonist and follow her every move. 

“With Me (Club Redux)” is a haunting track that you’ll love to cut loose to. 

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