"I remember in the studio thinking: ‘Oh my God, how am I going to deliver this to the label tomorrow?’ I’d totally lost sight of its potential": A music professor breaks down the theory behind All Saints' Pure Shores

All saints.

2025 marks the 25th anniversary of All Saints’ chart-topping '00s classic Pure Shores, so let’s find out what gives the track its dream-pop magic.

Group member Shaznay Lewis and producer William Orbit wrote Pure Shores for the soundtrack to the 2000 Leonardo DiCaprio film The Beach. All Saints also included it on their second album, Saints & Sinners.