Above & Beyond with Zoë Johnston - Quicksand (Don't Go) [Anjunabeats]

Artist(s)
Above & Beyond, Zoë Johnston
Release title
Quicksand (Don't Go)
Label name
Anjunabeats
Release date
Mar 21, 2025
Release type
Single
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https://music.anjunabeats.com/release/493468-above-beyond-and-zo-johnston-quicksand-dont-go

BS_BlackScout

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Introducing, then, Quicksand (Don’t Go), the new single that is, in all the right and best ways, the comeback of Above & Beyond. The lead track from a record where the power, strength, range, appeal and adaptability of the band is baked into the title: their fifth album is Bigger Than All of Us.

Debuted during the bands’ sold out global Group Therapy 600 broadcast in Mexico last October, it reunites Jono, Paavo and Tony with Zoë Johnston – partner in ‘We’re All We Need’, ‘Good For Me’ and ‘Love Is Not Enough’ among countless other favourites.


Single Art:
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It's classic Zoë Johnston”, explains Above & Beyond. “We've been working with her for 22 years now, so she's a part of the band. By that token, a song with her vocals is a very reassuring thing for our audience. It says: Above & Beyond are back, in a very recognisable form.”

As Johnston puts it of her deeply personal but sublimely universal lyrics: “I think most of us can relate to that feeling of desperation and dread when it comes to losing someone we love so deeply. The despair can be massive when you’re watching the grief rattle down the track towards you for quite some time before the moment of impact actually happens. Disappearing into quicksand. It’s scary, it hurts, and it’s lonely. Hopefully a song like this one makes anyone going through the pain of a seismic loss feel a little bit less alone.


Extended Mix:

Radio Edit:

I suggest listening to both. They have cool differences!
 
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Daysleeper

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Its nice until it drops. The melodic part is mediocre. Its basically the same pause-stop melody chords weve heard in so many modern anjuna more trousey trance tracks. Just a litle less paus.stop-ish.
 
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For anybody who’s waiting - there’s a teaser on A&B TikTok, so maybe it will be released next week or at the beginning of March :) And a track is simply „Quicksand” ✌️
 

Progrez

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Its nice especially the breakdown part, but the kick could have been a little better.
It's there at 1hour 10 mins and towards the end as well. This is far from their signature sound it's like 2009 A&B all over again.
 

Z Dobrej Woli

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Our new album, ‘Bigger Than All Of Us’, will be released on Anjunabeats on July 18. ‘Quicksand (Don’t Go)’ is out this Friday.

This album is us appreciating how amazing this thing we have is. How lucky we are that we get to be part of something like this for 25 years, and to have built a community that cares for each other in the way it does. It’s not about any of us individually. When we all work together to make something happen, something bigger happens.

More news on our album tour to come.

Jono, Paavo & Tony x

WOW!
 
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