"Spaced Out" (ST3PH song) – Queen City Sounds and Art

ST3PH employs the metaphor of traveling between dimensions and becoming aware of alternate universes and existences for liberation through personal transformation on the single “Spaced Out.” With coolly luminous keyboard sounds in the beat as well as accelerating synth flourishes and percussion accents it sounds like a synthesis of dub, trap and darkwave. While it wouldn’t quite fit to compare the song to something by Danny Brown, it shares that genre bending quality in which Goth-y dance music and hip-hop compliment each other so well as to create a different flavor and mood for both in one song. The story could be just another struggle and striving song but given a different kind of musical context it takes on another dimension giving the song a greater thematic depth than expected. Listen to “Spaced Out” on Soundcloud, follow ST3PH at the links provided and look out for the TRIME Vol. II EP due later in 2020.