“The Only One” arrives with the first fully realized music video of Logic1000’s career, a dance film shot with a group of young dancers ahead of her second album, “Confirmation!,” out October 2.
Most club records that want to say something about hope reach for a vocal about the club. “The Only One,” the new Logic1000 single featuring Christine and the Queens, goes somewhere stranger and better: a seaside town called Worthing, a group of young dancers, and a camera that mostly stays out of their way.
The track is the latest from Confirmation!, Logic1000’s second studio album, due October 2 via Therapy/Because Music, and it arrives with the first fully realized music video Samantha Poulter has ever released under the name. Directed by the young filmmaker Dora Paphides and choreographed by Lucy Brooks with Sky Cook assisting, the film puts Rahim in a room with a troupe of young dancers and lets connection do the rest. After six years of records that lived almost entirely in sound, that is a notable place to start.
It is also a loop closing. The two first crossed paths in 2020, when Poulter remixed Christine and the Queens’ “La vita nuova,” then reconnected years later for this album. They built the whole collaboration remotely and did not meet in person until the day of the shoot, which is either very 2020s or very much how dance music has always worked.
Over a production Poulter describes as ethereal, deep and open, Rahim wrote directly to the generation that will inherit everything.
I immediately jumped on my mic and felt this urge to sing to the younger generations, the one who will have to take over the sorry burning world our elders legated them. This song is dedicated to them, the young who will change this world. Music has to be a vessel for hope.
Christine and the Queens
“Confirmation!” follows her acclaimed 2024 debut “Mother” and, by her account, finds her on steadier emotional ground, working through acceptance, growth and self-belief, and the freedom of no longer trying to become a fixed version of yourself. The production spreads out to match, running through house, pop, downtempo, trip-hop and leftfield electronica with Kučka, Jam City, FAUZIA, yunè pinku and Tiffi M along for it.
A dance record about trusting the people who come next, with a video that literally hands them the floor. Not a bad way to spend three minutes before October.