“Made Love”, out September 11th, closes out the debut EP from Never Enough In Love, the Worthing-based project of songwriter and producer Neil Durrant. It’s a song about the depth and complexity of romantic connection, that particular ache of wanting to give and receive more from love than feels possible, delivered with the same intimate, cinematic sensibility that’s earned Durrant early praise from artists like Gorillaz collaborator Seye Adelekan, who’s said he loves “the fragility of the voice at the centre of it all.”
This song is a masterclass of pacing and storytelling. It starts out in a genuinely intimate fashion, a gentle, piano-led confession that lets its melodies breathe rather than rushing toward anything bigger too soon, and that patience pays off completely once the arrangement finally opens up. The build is gradual and earned, gaining intensity and emotional weight step by step before erupting into a euphoric, gospel-inspired finale that hits considerably harder for having taken its time to get there.
That arc the song takes, where the textures mirror the narrative, is what music is all about; you can probably listen to the song with no vocals and still get what the song is about; that’s how powerful it is. In my opinion, Neil Durrant’s debut EP, “Made Love” makes a strong case for an artist genuinely skilled at building worlds inside individual songs, intimate and dramatic in equal measure, and unmistakably he has his own style; even as the arrangement grows and becomes much more complex, it still retains a unique fingerprint of artistry.