Synth Single Review: “Midnight Sun” by lxst child & CRÈME

by Karl Magi

lxst child & CRÈME’s “Midnight Sun” has a sultry sensuality as it unfolds. The song commences as distantly hovering notes move across an echoing background, creating a sense of mounting tension. The huge rhythm collides with lxst child’s guitar as it rings out with floating smoothness and deep contemplation. CRÈME’s sensual voice entwines with the softly touching melody as the entire track glistens with city light, neon glowing all around.

As the slowly marching bass weight moves, CRÈME’s breathily warming voice carries the seductive melody. The guitar flows along with midnight tranquility. A synth bubbles as the vocals catch me with their powerful sense of need and passion. The gigantic underlayer rumbles as CRÈME takes the lyrics and delivers them with conviction while the guitar intertwines with the soft luminosity of a city skyline. The heaving beat shapes the music and the huge bass growls before the song comes to an end.

“Every day when it’s late at night in the city,” and it’s hot outside, our storyteller can hear the sirens and the music “on the street outside in the midnight sun.” Whether they like it or not, they’ll be “on when it’s hot in the streets,” whether the song’s subject meets her or not.

“Meet me in the park in the moonlight sky,” as the narrator plans to leave everything behind that night. She says, “We collide, I feel you near,” and despite clashing signs, they know no fear. She adds, “Feel the rhythm, you pull me close in the streets.” She wants to know if the other person is down for it, up to the task, as well as “the way that I ride in the heat of the night.”