DEAD LIGHTS add another colour to their broad sound palette with this new, cold synthpop song. An emotional, yet restrained vocal delivery, embedded in a sonic landscape that’s clearly located in 80s infused goth electropop, leading you to ‘(The Edge of) Dusk’: a reference to Nietzsche’s “abyss”, or death … or both. A song about longing and loss. A bleak tale of tragic romanticism, a nostalgic yearning for lost love through memories from a time when the world was splayed open before us, when the possibilities were endless. Two souls split apart by the choices we make and the paths we take. A life spent growing up and growing apart. Over time, thoughts of what could have been turn to regrets of a life un-lived; a longing to return to those halcyon days, to our perfect place. “As the end draws ever nearer and I become ever more lost, you are my guiding light shining from the looming abyss. I cling to the thought that we could hold hands again whilst staring at the end of the world. So, you’ll find me waiting at the brink of oblivion. Will you meet me here, at the edge of dusk?”
Categories
