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The second single cometh, and it’s a beaut. I must admit that it’s taken a while for “Meteorites” to grow on me, but several listens later its combination of swirling pianos, euphoric synths, warm bass throbs (quiet at the back!) and another star turn from Elsa Esmeralda have won me over. Yet more high-quality, uplifting drum and bass from London Elektricity, who is really rather good at this sort of thing. The video, a science fiction epic referencing everything from War of the Worlds to Star Wars via Silent Running and Atari’s classic Asteroids, is great too, and you can check it out below.

The single package contains two remixes, both of an extremely high quality. The Danny Byrd mix is just what you’d expect from Mr Rave Digger, which is no bad thing, upping the hands-in-the-air factor and beefing it up with the man from Bath’s trademark wibbly-wobbly bass, glitchy vocal cut-ups and chunky beats. He makes expert use of the original’s piano motif and vocal, both surely absolute gifts to any remixer, dropping them in at different moments and fully exploiting the huge emotion of Elsa Esmeralda’s “look at your eyes, they’re meteorites” refrain.

The Cutline remix, meanwhile, is a wholly different and deliciously dirty kettle of fish. For the first minute or so you’ll probably be expecting a similarly happy tune, but then in come some sinister synth stabs and odd echoes, before a skittering drumbeat heralds a drop of gigantic proportions, booting us headfirst into a monstrous cauldron of heavy halfstep beats and buzzsaw bass. Cutline keep a nice balance of clean and filthy, swapping cleverly between the loved-up vocal refrain and the grimy grinding business, and round off another very nice release for Hospital.