by Karl Magi
Lucien Drive’s “Glass Horizon” moves with increasing power beneath its textured surface, a synth bubbling up with spreading radiance as it is joined by broadly exploding beats and a gruffly slicing sound. The kick drum is heavy while the snare drum accelerates and fat-sounding synth tumbles as a melody mingling melancholy and muscle paints images of glass towers glowing with urban phosphorescence as the city streets rush beneath.
A metallic jangle that moves with the massive, neon-lit notes is given a driving foundation while the arpeggiating sounds cascade. A synth conjures up a feeling of traveling through a forest of skyscrapers as I glance up with a mixture of reverence and awe. Colliding percussion joins a widely dancing synth, transporting a melody which drifts off into silence with profound calm.
