The current single from The New Flesh has a cold heart and an old soul. With its echoes of Depeche Mode and Gary Numan the bleak electronica is guaranteed to take the over 50s listener back to their youth, but this Polish duo aren’t resolutely stuck in the past.

Their electronica certainly calls back to an eighties vintage, but the haunting, filtered vocals that lends ‘Don’t Make Me Wait’ its unsettling edge owe far more of a debt to the slower, contemporary material from Parisian coldwave/synth duo Echoberyl. This contrast of styles almost leans into an electro-goth world, where the potentially dreary actually borders upon the cinematic.

The music never hurries, choosing to fill four minutes with steady programmed beats and sweeping synth sounds, but despite a near unchanging landscape, the track never becomes dull. It’s dark tones pull the listener in slowly, and Diana Sawicka’s quiet, almost breathy vocal adds a layer of atmosphere that’s absolutely perfect for the style. Listeners shouldn’t necessarily expect anything immediate: this single is the ultimate vehicle for transporting the audience to somewhere that feels almost otherworldly, but for all of its potential artiness, it is shared without any pretention or self indulgence.

With a perfect balance between the new, the classic and the familiar, with this single, The New Flesh share one of this autumn’s finest slices of electronica. Check out the new video below.