Premiere: Rhye - The Fall (Live)

Simplicity and softness dominate this low-key, high-impact performance of the LA duo's stunning single.

Rhye are an LA duo who make direct, striking love songs that sound like classics the instant you hear them.

Debut track Open was a quiet moment of heartfelt genius, and follow-up The Fall, revealed at the end of last month, has a way of getting under your skin that makes you believe that it was always there. With unwavering notes clinging to the listener like a stare, and shifting, shimmying beats underpinning the elegant instrumentation, the song is at once both fresh and familiar.

In this calm new format, performed live at a piano and with sparse strings, The Fall is even more immediately recognisable and arresting; as that voice wafts gently, smokily into earshot, something very special takes shape. Take a listen below.