The gothic world and the nightclub dancefloor were never that far away from each other; there was always something more pop-aware and digitally deft about that dark, post-punk sub-genre’s approach. I’m not talking about bands like The Mission which was more influenced by bands like Led Zeppelin, but that early punk-gothique wave who, having grown tired of guitars, were rewiring keyboards to their will. Twice Dark fits into this formative, dark, delicious digital embrace.
Taken from their upcoming album Telekinetic, “Necromantic” is a perfect blend of poised synth waves, driving beats, shimmering keyboard riffs, and depth-charge bass energy. And man, does it ever groove!
A fantastical tale of a man pulled into the underworld by a graveyard apparition, the music sets up the perfect shaded and terror-infused backdrop, a dark dance for an equally dark tale, as the artist himself puts it, a “grief-soaked goth dance floor anthem.”
It is a bridge between worlds. Not just the mortal realm and the one beyond that is the lyrical thrust of the song, but also a bridge that connects that formative industrial-dance-darkwave sound of those earliest of days with the modern music age, not to mention bringing together the alternative night club with the more discerning downtown dance floor.
The best music is usually a place where worlds collide, to some degree, but it isn’t often that so many are found interacting, colliding creatively, and certainly not doing all of that in under four minutes.
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