“Night,”the third song from VYKS’ debut album, sounds like a chapter of a story arc by the late French comic legend Moebius. There is a sense of the far flung future but one that also feels familiar. The sound design on the song making extensive use of hard, rapid panning to alternate in stimulating both sides of your brain could be disorienting if it wasn’t also employed in a way that seems to reconcile opposites. The mechanistic percussive elements ground the ethereal vocals in the conflicted emotions that run through the narrative and a story of wanting to be free of the control and oppression of a mysterious “they.” As the song is part of a concept album that sounds like it has some footing in experimental, electronic industrial music it hearkens one to Battle Angel Alita as she awakens to her own identity and independence beyond that programmed into her design. This song is like the inner dialogue one might engage in late at night while sorting out your real feelings and how you want to act on them if at all. Listen to “Night” on Spotify.
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