Synth Single Review: “Crystal Eyes’’ by Dress To Impress

by Karl Magi

Dress To Impress’s “Crystal Eyes” takes the listener on a journey through complicated feelings. The song opens as the main melody glides past with caressing fragility while ethereal notes sweep. Dress To Impress’s vocals capture uncertainty and loss, carrying the smoothly slipping melodic line as the rhythm presses on.

Rounded notes create an impression of tender touches as crystalline tones trickle and the ticking beat drops for a moment. As the drums return with frolicking life, the chorus echoes with gossamer lightness and a saxophone encapsulates all of the love and deep intensity in the song. Dress To Impress’s engaging voice extends, pulling me into the song’s story.

Far-off notes twinkle with delicate radiance as the throbbing underlayer guides the music. A tapping sound moves as a chiming synth levitates with surrounding gentleness and the chorus captures affecting feeling. The saxophone carries a melody expressing melancholic affection as it moves past with silky elegance.

In the distance, spangled notes hover and the saxophone cries out with fervor before the song slowly flows into silence.

“I was lost, but now I'm found,” and the storyteller is always safe but never sound. As the years drift past, he speaks of an “unknown fate, and unknown fears.” He says that “the people search and they slip away, another door to an endless maze.”

As the sunset radiates colour, time vanishes and he sees the song’s subject standing in the dark with her “crystal eyes.” In hopeless nights, he speaks of looking around and seeing “many faces, fleeting sounds.” As the music plays, they move closer together with their “heartbeats racing, running over.”