Since 2006, when Cassie’s iconic hit single “Me & U” first intoxicated clubgoers, there has been something mystical and magnetic about the way her clean, sex-tinged vocals infect a dance track. With “King Of Hearts”, she once again takes us on a walk through the stranger side of sound with a tale of her lover, who is trapped inside of a palace of ice, distant in another dimension.

“Seduction is your art/You are my king of hearts” echoes over a forest of beautiful, infuriated jungle drums that rain continuously down on her chorus of innocent “la la la la”s, appropriately securing the doomed mood of the song’s finale.

This track is Cassie at her strongest- stunningly strange, intrusive and again worthy of cult-classic status in the dance world.

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Words by Alex Kazemi.