There’s a moment in every rave when the sweat dries and emotions get the best of you. longstoryshort’s new EP, IN MY MIND, lives precisely in that transformative instant.
The electronic music virtuoso, one of the genre’s greatest shapeshifters, performs a masterful vanishing act in the project, wherein he provides the fury of the rave before navigating the eerie quiet of its afterglow. He says he hopes listeners “connect with these tracks as a soundtrack to their own highs, lows and everything in between.”
Translating raw energy with anarchic grace, the EP is a testament to electronic music’s duality: the sweating bodies on the dancefloor and the souls that inhabit them. Its music makes aggression and intimacy seem like two sides of the same coin, spearing through the membrane between primal urge and pure feeling.
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The first half comprises ferocious, brass-knuckled beats that demand movement like a puppet master yanking steel strings. longstoryshort snaps them in “IJUSTWANNA,” a surefire standout where frenetic bass stabs slither through UKG and dubstep drops like spiders in the brain.
But just when you think you’ve got him figured out, the EP pirouettes into something different yet eerily familiar. The back half of IN MY MIND strips away the armor to reveal a beating heart underneath, where the ghost in his machine dances with its own silhouette.
longstoryshort’s nuanced, textured production shines in “take the fall (don’t let it stop you),” a haunting house anthem for the heartbroken hedonist. Then comes another four-on-the-floor masterstroke, “part of me,” which feels more like a psychological striptease with gnawing lyrics that explore a numb emptiness: “Suddenly you’re looking for a way inside my head / Don’t know how to say it, but there’s nothing of me left.”
Listen to IN MY MIND, out now via NIGHTMODE, below and find the new EP on streaming platforms here.
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