Momentum is almost always crucial in the modern music industry.

It’s the old cliche – one minute you’re hot, the next you’re not. You could release a string of hit singles over 12 months, take a six month break, and by the time you return you’ve been left in the dust.

So it was a bold move for Melbourne four piece City Calm Down to spend three years working on their debut album In A Restless House – when they surely would have had an army of people in their ears after the 2012 success of their debut EP Movements.

But it seems the gamble has paid off with the first single ‘Rabbit Run’ finally arriving from the new record today, delivering on three years of patience in glorious fashion.

It would be remiss to not admit that there’s an obvious spoon and a half full of Joy Division in the sound of ‘Rabbit Run’. From the Peter Hook-esque bassline, to the baritone vocals and the atmospheric synths, it all sounds like it could have easily been lifted from the soundtrack of 24 Hour Party People.

But there’s something more triumphant in the energy of ‘Rabbit Run’ rather than the melancholy that floated around a song like ‘Ceremony’ for example. It makes for more joyous listening (pardon the pun), as the song build and builds and builds into a fists raised in the air crescendo and that thudding bassline basks in the beautiful blue spotlight.

Take a listen for yourself below. Meanwhile In A Restless House is out September 11 via I Oh You.