For those of you who are not familiar with Lapalux, it’s time to become acquainted. His musical style dances around soulful experimental and ambient elecontrica, sometimes converging on free-form, but it is always purposeful, always beautiful. The UK-based producer has been gaining momentum with each successively released single in preparation for his “Some Other Time” EP this October. “Forgetting and Learning Again” is the most recent and, in my opinion, the most breathtaking of these efforts to date. Released merely four hours ago, the song has already found a home on my iPhone and is favored to quickly rise the charts of my “Most Played.” Kerry Leatham’s voice is a perfect complement to the song’s rich textures; it embodies that brief self-admonishment and that fleeting sense of guilt we all undergo when we realize that we’ve once again fallen into the trap of human habit. But thanks to this shared, depressing cycle of events, we can fully relate to and enjoy a song as evocative as “Forgetting and Learning Again.”

And, “The Hours,” which was released about two weeks ago: