Starsmith – Be My Love feat Tawiah: New music

Reading on mobile? Click here to listen

Producer Starsmith, aka Fin Dow-Smith, is a busy boy. So busy in fact that he seems to have forgotten about being a pop star in his own right. Having produced songs for the likes of Cheryl Cole, Kylie Minogue and Ellie Goulding, he released his debut single as Starsmith back in 2010, and then followed that up with a couple of years of near silence. Not that he's been sitting around twiddling his thumbs, in fact the broad list of people he's been working with of late ranges from Take That's Mark Owen to big-haired chanteuse Ella Eyre to blogger's delight Charli XCX. But all of that is about to take a backseat again with the release of his new single, the excellent Be My Love. Featuring the vocals of Tawiah, who used to be in Mark Ronson's touring band, it's a yearning, synth-heavy tale of a three-way relationship from the point of you of the woman on the side. "I'm the one who knows just what you like, but she's the one who holds you through the night" moans Tawiah as the synths hang delicately behind her, before the jealousy-fuelled chorus of "baby won't you be my love" is joined by a quick injection of pace and a big farting synth riff.

Be My Love is out on March 10.