Marshmello Dusts Off His Dance Roots on "Save My Love" with Ellie Goulding, AVAION
A decade into his career, the mononymous producer returns to the dance-pop blueprint that first propelled him to mainstream success.
Rachel Narozniak
In the 10 years since Marshmello launched his artist project, bringing his immediately recognizable, buoyant but bass-heavy signature to dance circles, the masked producer’s sound has changed significantly. This evolution has taken him across genres, ranging from metal-inflected dance music with SVDDEN DEATH to the Latin style he explored on his fifth studio album, Sugar Papi, and, more recently, country crossovers, including the Kane Brown collaboration, “Miles On It.” Yet on “Save My Love,” the Joytime Collective label head harkens back to a more mainstream strain of the dance sound that won him early success, like 2017’s “Silence” alongside Khalid and 2018’s “Happier” with Bastille.
It comes with all the accoutrements of a commercial song of the summer contender: a belt-along-friendly topline, courtesy of a marquee vocalist (Ellie Goulding), and a catchy, hooky dance-pop format that could thrive equally well on radio and dance floors alike. Listen below.
This unexpected but welcome return to Marshmello’s roots unfolds alongside one of Germany’s most promising electronic exports of late, triple-threat singer-songwriter-producer AVAION. Yes, it has been a while since Marshmello put out something that sounds like “Save My Love,” but on the single, he doesn’t just dust off the dance-pop framework that always seemed to work exceptionally well for him – he shows his approach to be as well-heeled as ever.
