Anna Lunoe seems to have a lot to say alongside Sleepy Tom on their powerful and emotional new single, ‘Stay Awake.’
This single opens up with Lunoe’s vocals crafting heavy spoken-word, poetics. In the build up to the first drop both the beat and Lunoe’s words gradually become more clear and create a lot of meaty tension. She touches upon being tired of artificial and superficial experiences in our current world, which is instep with the creaky, industrial feel of what waits at the bottom of the drop.
The center of this track is not so much the wordy message, but the rusted, grinding-gear-like percussion, and janky synths that give you the feeling of checking your tetanus shot before you hit replay. The flavor is almost post-apocalyptic with its hair raising, and alarming synths coupled with the chugging rhythm. The slashing snares and underlying reverberations keep the creepy going through the second verse, and the second drop, which is identical to the first, but still entrancingly dark and dank.
Check it out below.
