London’s Gold Panda finally makes his return with a new single titled ‘Transactional Relationship’. This is the first solo offering since releasing his 2016 EP Your Good Times Are Just Beginning. A moody yet bubbling piece of electronica, Gold Panda manages to use UK Garage meets broken beat-style drums topped with disjointed piano stabs, and hazy effects. He even manages to sample a piece from Hilary Woods’ ‘Sever’ track.

Gold Panda has also shared a video for the single. The visuals simply feature men at work in a cleaners, which for many of us who have never actually seen how it’s done, is a window into the process.

‘Transactional Relationship’ is out now via City Slang.

Touching on the track, Gold Panda said:

“I made the track at home. I had a track nearly done and I’d bought the Hilary Woods LP after seeing her support Low at the Barbican and decided to give it a play during a tea break. There were bits that went really well with what I’d made so I decided to chop parts up in my mpc and layered them over my track, thus ruining Hilary’s song for evermore. I did a sort of “live take” and that was it.”