Synth Single Review: “Astroloop” by Aeronexus & Beckett

by Karl Magi

Aeronexus & Beckett’s “Astroloop” begins with bright lights floating off into space before the drum beat towers and strings carry a melody which breaks with hurt and growing loss. Beckett's talkbox creates a robotic impression, somehow deepening the emotional weight of the words, despite its artificial quality.

In the distance, a synth glistens with planetary brilliance, while the talkbox vocals generate more disconnection, as strings touch the music with wistful tones. A synth solo moves with expressive iridescence before Beckett’s soulful performance grasps me and the robotic chorus intertwines with more human vocals. As the strings levitate and suffuse the music with a supernova light, the words float into thoughtful silence.

As our storyteller is trapped in a loop without the song's subject, he feels his life is pointless and the world weighs on him in his loneliness. He tries to "justify the times, the lies" as he feels trapped, unable to stop thinking because he wants the other person back. He says "I'm in the void, I stare and I cry from beyond the black" but he can't escape the loop because it is "the astrometric of time itself."

Falling like debris, the narrator is "floating so peacefully and aimlessly away" as he takes a one-way trip to the closest star. He's "stuck in an astroloop" as he seems unable to get anywhere. He refers to the song’s subject as "my tracking beacon, trying to bring me home." He adds that the retros are offline and he has to face the situation alone.

To conclude, our storyteller delivers a monologue, saying, "computer’s down, wiring’s shot, retros are offline. I can't stop thinking about you as I head into the singularity. I just hope that maybe there's a chance, maybe there's a chance that you and I are together on the other side."