Synth Single Review: “Left Behind” by Cassetter, Cyberwalker & Out Runner

by Karl Magi

Cassetter, Cyberwalker & Out Runner’s “Left Behind” starts with the turn of a key as it travels down lonely roads, capturing a roaming journey with lapping notes that wash past with an air of soothing, peaceful thought. Drifting past like the miles down an empty highway, a rhythm moves like passing fence posts below the melodic pattern.

A growing intensity spills from scintillating tones, glinting and supported by a desolate wind flowing through the music. Slowly touching notes are driven by a riffling drum flourish before a pipe-like synth melody paints images of an endless horizon reaching out, a car moving with silent disconnection toward it.

A haunting refrain from Out Runner’s guitar captures emptiness and isolation, evoking a long wander past seemingly endless fields and hills. Sensations of hushed contemplation glide past before an impassioned guitar solo is coaxed from the instrument by Out Runner’s talented hands, full of fierce emotion in the face of the loneliness of the asphalt moving into forever.