Tainted Youth Want You To Dance To 'Drifting Away'
- Curious For Music Team
- Aug 18
- 1 min read
Tainted Youth are the kind of act you hear once and immediately want to tell your mates about.
Their latest single, "Drifting Away", is dreamy, drenched in feels, and undeniably fresh. Imagine if your deepest thoughts had a D&B soundtrack—that’s the vibe.
The duo—Ryan Hall and Kathleen Down—met in London, started making music from a shared flat, and have somehow managed to keep it all real ever since. "Drifting Away" is a track that proves you don’t need a fancy studio to make something gorgeous. With emotional vocals and a beat that feels like it’s floating through your chest, it hits in all the right places.
There’s a story here too: the track was first written in 2017, long before Tainted Youth became a thing. That backstory gives it extra weight, and you can feel the history in every note. It’s the sound of two people reconnecting with a part of themselves—and each other—through music.
It’s also mad relatable. That feeling of slipping away, emotionally or otherwise, is captured so perfectly in Kathleen’s delivery. You don’t need to know their whole backstory to feel this track—it just gets you. Like a page from someone else's diary that weirdly fits your life too.
"Drifting Away" is a reminder that great music doesn’t have to scream—it can whisper, glide, and still stay with you. Tainted Youth are clearly just getting started, but they’re already speaking to a generation looking for something real.
