Laura Steel: 'Running'
'Running’ is the debut single of 24-year old London-based soloist Laura Steel. Within ten seconds of its beginning I thought it was 1998 again – and this is no bad thing, for the first few bars of this record are a modern take on the golden era of British trance music, euphoric and mesmeric in equal stead, laying the path on which Steel’s vocal can walk - or should I say run.
I’m trying my best not to hyperbolise here, hard as it is, because the remaining three minutes of this record don’t show any frailty beyond that housed within the lyrics – this is a superb single, one which is deserving of a wider audience, for it's style is such that it could appear anywhere and fulfil a purpose – it strikes me as the sort of song that could slot right in to the next Zach Braff film for instance.
Pinning it and indeed it’s creator into a musical sub-category is therefore rendered a pointless task as the initial dance theme is made to make room for an awesome drum beat that reminded me somehow of Amerie’s ‘One Thing’, one of the best singles in recent memory. Add to these a delivery typical of the modern age yet of its own style and distinction and what you have here is just short of four-minutes of pop-dance-something that needs no classification, other than to say it should spell the start of something much bigger for Laura Steel.
9/10
Review by Benjamin Coley
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