Alesso & OneRepublic announce In Your Eyes on Capitol Records

OneRepublic are on In Your Eyes in full voice throughout, out today via Capitol Records, with the production belonging to Alesso, whose previous collaboration with Tedder was a long time ago. The record reaches for the 2010s almost immediately, landing among the crossover records that took in If I Lose Myself, Calling (Lose My Mind) and Scars.

The melody, recognisable in feel, quite new in outline. It’s got the quality of a stranger met on the dancefloor who ends up feeling like someone known for years. The opening is a long ascent, carrying the elevation and the sweep that made progressive house dominant, and Alesso has positioned it right at the front.

Alesso’s production is constructed at the scale that a main stage operates on, and the warmth remains at the centre of it. The label has also released Everclear, Beck and Niall Horan. Tedder moves the vocal across the top of the arrangement unhurried, evocative in its writing in the way that carried OneRepublic’s earlier work a long way.