Hazy vibes and slack bass lay the groundwork for Touch You, the gloriously dreamy track from duo Vanilla and Gustav, who together make up Morabeza Tobacco.

A song that bubbles away with a sense of unrealised desire, Touch You has the soft-focused feel of peak-Blood Orange or Lindstrøm & Christabelle’s Real Life Is No Cool. The feeling the song conveys could be an analogue for the way Morabeza Tobacco approach the act of making music… The act of creation is deliberately inwardly focused, focusing on what feels good for the duo first, and disregarding how the whole comes together until they leave the studio. It’s an approach to music making that is almost sensual in approach, consumed in the moment rather than worrying about how things appear from the outside.

Describing the thought process that guides Morabeza Tobacco, Vanilla says, “I think we’re more of a studio band than a live band for now. We don’t have that in mind, how it’s going to sound live. I think we focus on finding the magic in the studio, and finding a way that our voices suit”. “If we want to make a song a certain way”, says Gustav, “we make it that way. There’s never a question of ‘how will this perform live?’, or ‘how is this compared to the last album?’. It’s just about songs”.

The song and video both hum with an irresistibly sensory immediacy that reminds me of warm places and even warmer emotions.

Taken from their forthcoming album, Shadow Of The Cherry, Touch You is apparently one of the more assertively pop moments on the record. The album generally embraces a soft, subtle feeling to it.

Check out Touch You below, and look out for Shadow Of The Cherry when it is released via Roxy Music / Playground Music this autumn.