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Tone of Arc's Breathless Ambient Track "Lasting for You" Gets an Appropriately Suffocating Video

Take a deep breath and dive in.

Having built a catalog of hook-heavy techno-pop tunes on Toronto-based No. 19 Music, dance duo Tone of Arc made a pivot towards their hometown on their second album, Urgent Turquoise, which came out last fall on San Francisco legacy label Om Records.

In the process, the pair took their sound to spacier places, fitting with the vibey tradition of the Bay Area. "Lasting for You" is a new track, appearing as the B-side to the album's latest single, "Shutters Are Shaking." The song takes the groups current exploration to its logical conclusion, a nearly weightless ambient exercise that, as producer Derrick Boyd describes it, relates to the ephemeral nature of existence."As one passes through a psychedelic adventure in space and folding time, we get a glimpse of how life is not so rare at all but quite the opposite as every star, planet and gaseous cloud we pass is alive and moving endlessly changing sporadically without notice, much like the song."

The video was directed by Boyd and features a breathless feat by the musical masterminds behind ToA. Don't worry, no humans were drowned in the making of the video, although you might need to gasp for air by the time it is over. "Shutters Are Shaking" is on sale as of today.