Synth Single Review: “Lost in the Stars” by Scandroid

by Karl Magi

Scandroid’s “Lost in the Stars” glows with intergalactic love as it undulates into life with nebular radiation. Klayton’s vocals rise in a crescendo to move with overwhelming walls of bass and speeding percussion. Massive power spills from a synth underpinned by a charging guitar before fierce feeling seizes Klayton’s voice. Cosmically twisting notes intertwine with the flying chorus, climbing with unstoppable excitement while the prismatic synth light mixes with the raging guitar.

A feeling of affection and all of the majesty of space fills my heart, expressed by Klayton’s gripping performance. As the starlight-drenched chorus leaps, rhythmic dynamism rips from chugging guitar and battering beats, contrasting with ethereal tonal patterns floating through. Vocals become muffled as crushing low-end strength swells and the chorus vaults upward before the song ends.

Galactic light illuminates the storyteller's spaceship as it is “drifting through an endless night.” Far away starlight gleams, but their home is far off. “Every star holds a memory suspended on strings of time” which bind his heart and mind to the song’s subject. “We are lost in the stars, no matter how far, we'll never be apart,” despite there being no sign of a beginning or an ending.

As they float on a “stream of light,” stars like “tears of a million suns surround us in the night.” Our storyteller asks the song’s subject to make a wish on every one. Their heartbeats “echo side by side, absorbed in a warm embrace.” Crackling with electricity, common threads connect them through time and space.