Elaine Howley - Hold Me In A New Way (Ltd. 300 Copies)Swooning DIY pop specialist Elaine Howley lands on Modern Loves 7 series for a supremely smouldering session, skewing late night pop diamonds for the fantasy jukebox. Be warned, Hold Me In A New Way is one of those earworms that doesnt easily let go, advancing on the sort of intimate songcraft that first snagged our ears to Elaines quietly extraordinary debut LP, The Distance Between Heart and Mouth., back in 2022. Just a pulsing drum machine, bass

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Backed with a Main Ingredient track that's shot-up in popularity over the last few years

the Moroccan artist has gained a reputation for being as versatile an A&R as a producer

weaving through dreamy italo-disco

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a more straight-up heads-down stripped back club jam with a repeated vocal

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Quickly finding fans in the likes of Elton John

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then tweaking

Both B-side tracks are also new mixdowns and edits from the original stems