Thunders and heavy rain. It’s like Three storms merged into one and hit you with power. You are sitting in your small flat hearing the sirens from outside the street. Small but cosy, with indirect lighting and a view from the window, somehow unearthly, a quality your friends have always called unsettling. The screensaver never stops from that massive, glowing heart of the room: the PC screen. You don’t mind the heavy shower. It is almost irrelevant. You must go out.
You put your headphones on. For a couple of seconds, a lofi beat plays, a loop straight out from a classic 16bit console game, the calm before the drop before the explosive drop that throws you onto the street. What was once a vision of the ’80s future is now the near future, just a couple of years ahead. You press on, ignoring the chaos nearby, focused, as always, on nothing but the path ahead.
The synth arpeggios create a hypnotic loop that feels perpetual. The ’80s guitars, with their classic mid-gain crunch, remain both melodic and technical, adding that necessary grit and texture. Technology drives the sound forward, introducing trancey and club aesthetics. This blend reveals that Darksynth and Trance are not that far apart. You might have thought there were three light-years between them, and while that may feel like an immense distance to us, in the greater scheme of things, they are simply neighbors. This artistic need to fuse genres is evident later in the album, too, when the synths meet a Liam Howlett-style warrior DNB beat.
The chord progressions are infused with strong does of melancholia, demonstrating that solid basslines and ethereal textures can be matched with powerful songwriting and epic melodic moments that stand alongside classic Justice themes. The overall production demonstrates a high level of sophistication within the cyberpunk aesthetics. The arrangement is varied, with moments where clean vocals introduce a commercial appeal that contrasts effectively with the darker, saturated sections and piano keys interact delicately with the saturated synth textures.
Have you lost? You definitely feel lost. And it is devastating. You tried to escape the city a couple of times. But in the end you were always returning back. And again, and again, and again.
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Secret Eclectic 
Quality album 👌
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