Some house tunes hit so steady, it puts you in a kind of trance. You find yourself drifting off the dance floor into some personal state of higher consciousness.

So it goes with "No Goodbye," the first single of 2019 from Berlin's Paul Kalkbrenner. It's a driving club boiler with a tempo just a bit quicker than the standard 120 to push you a hair over the edge, but just before you fall, it catches you with bittersweet melodies and a soulful, slightly mumbled vocal to keep you dancing. It's a song for the brokenhearted, a bit of momentum to keep you pushing forward in the darkness toward the promised dawn.

The song comes amid a handful of European dates and on the heels of Kalbrenner's headlining set at Barcelona's venerable Sónar Festival. The single release is paired with an extended b-side that brings the synths, joyfully haunting in an almost Catholic sense, under spotlight.

"No Goodbye" is out now on B1 Recordings. Listen to the full double-sided release below.