Downtown Kayoto shares brilliant new single “Run from you”
It’s been a minute since we featured Downtown Kayoto on DNü. In the past two years we’ve watched him not only generate traction with captivating releases, we’ve also watched him gain co-signs from the likes of Zane Lowe, Pharrell Williams, Jack Saunders and more.
Produced by frequent collaborator Jack Laboz (María Isabel, Nina Cobham, Alice Longyu Gao), the Hull, UK-based artist is back with his brilliant new single “Run from You” released via London tastemaker label Other Projects. The track effortlessly combines a captivating guitar-led indie rock instrumentation with hip-hop influenced beats. Downtown Kayoto’s experimentation, which has never been limited to a single genre, pays off again.
“Run from you is a song about how I would run away from my problems, I’m pretty sure that everyone goes through a similar thing. Specifically this was about a relationship that I really valued at the time, and when I look back at how I dealt with the end of the relationship I noticed that my behaviour was definitely avoidant. I get really prideful at points so sometimes I’ll just run so that I don’t need to deal with the situation at hand; run with no particular destination in mind, I just run and I when I look back I run fast… This is one thing I really wanna stop doing (lol). It’s not really healthy but without it I guess I wouldn’t have made this song.” — Downtown Kayoto.
Stream “Run from You” below:
Photo Credit: Joe Howat
