- Rune Reilly Kolsch knows how to make club tracks with impact: just check the techno he did as Ink & Needle, for his own Tattoo Recordings label or the more anthemic—but still determinedly functional—work he's done as Kölsch, for Kompakt. But the Danish musician also knows his way around pop hooks: after all, as Rune RK and Enur, he's thrilled the mainstage crowd with fizzy filter disco, Guetta-style electro-house and reggaeton-inflected house hits like the comped-to-death "Calabria."
Despite Kompakt's imprimatur, "All Things Matter" resides at the very poppiest edge of the spectrum: with its svelte chords and epic emotional gestures, it stakes out a position somewhere between M83 and Avicii's "Levels." But don't let that comparison turn you off. Yes, it's swooning, eyes-closed emo-trance to the max, but it's made with enough nuance, tenderness and, for lack of a better word, feeling, that it comes off as genuinely moving. It doesn't hurt that his synths are unusually supple and his chord progression unimpeachably naïve; it also doesn't hurt that the singer Troels Abrahamsen has a rather heavenly falsetto that infuses the track with a smoky glow. For vocal-phobes, there's an instrumental, but even normally stone-faced curmudgeons may find themselves won over by Kölsch and Abrahamsen's wispy bliss.
Tracklist A All That Matters feat. Troels Abrahamsen
B All That Matters (Instrumental)