Waves_On_Waves x Waves On Waves After Dark x Crimewave – The Center Of Attention
Try to make songs that feature no discernible choruses, and you have sealed your fate. No matter how good the beat, or how deeply philosophical the lyrics happen to be, the best that you’re going to get for an audience is bespectacled, bearded men debating the true meaning of the material.
A new dance craze is needed! It’s always needed, and adopted not just by smiling teenagers who manage to get themselves on television or popular on TikTok. Every single subculture needs to fabricate its very own.
Gothic-rock is back in fashion! Or, rather, it’s gothic fashion that is currently popular again and pushing the rock music aspects to the forefront. How one feels about it is rather irrelevant. What is clear is that this is a good time for groups making this kind of music.
But how do we get to be in focus? Writing a song that people can dance to. “The Centre of Attention,” by Waves_On_Waves x Waves On Waves After Dark x Crimewave is very much a pop song, but it is loaded with enough production tricks, vocal tone and cold, minimalist beats that goth-rock fans will recognise. It’s also a fashionable tune, one that will get black-clad fans on the dancefloor.
soft divide – last call
Now, try to imagine that you wake up in the morning and find a letter pushed under your door. You open it and, lo and behold, it’s an invitation from Count Dracula who desperately wants you to attend his party in the evening.
Naturally, you’re thrilled, and the first thing you do is search coordinates for the mansion up on the Transylvanian hills. Next, you find something black to wear. And, lastly, you call all of your friends and brag about your new acquaintance.
But once you get to the part, ol’ Vlad spends the entire evening talking to his guests about corporate finance and why putting all your money in crypto stablecoins is the way to go. That’s what a lot of gothic-rock sounds like to me these days.
It is not, however, what soft divide’s “last call” resembles, as here the song’s melodies and hooks are treated as the highlight, as the thing for which audiences will move up toward the mansion on the hill. soft divide have a understand and developed a knack for crafting eerie, dark-sounding gothic fantasies that have a hook and, thus, a point.
