East London male-female duo Visions of Trees, aka Sara Atalar and Joni Juden, have been a blog staple since they started making music together in the summer of 2009. The pair describe their sound as "moody and messed-up pop", which sounds about right, with a lot of their earlier stuff coming across as a slightly calmer Crystal Castles but with more of a 90s R&B influence. Their new single, Sirens, opens with an almost jungle-esque beat augmented by cut-up samples of Atalar inhaling, before the chorus crashes in like a big gloom-pop thunder crack. For the video – shown here for the first time – the duo perform the song surrounded by creepy crawlies who get to bask in neon lights and their own smoke machines.
• Sirens is released on 17 October via Deadly People Recordings.
