The Nashville-based electronic-pop artist Dawning is back with a single, "Want That," a lustrous descent into a neon-lit realm of desire and the dark clutch of consumer society. This most recent track is a sonic skyscraper towering, immersive, and humming with the eerie hum of desire in a world on the verge.
"Want That" snags you in its mid-landscape as it flings them into a cinematic cityscape of releasing synth and monolithic walls in a midnight metropolis. The production on the track is lush yet haunting, a perfect bed for its deeper themes. Dawning constructs a meditation on the modern consumption of material and emotion through the specter of global climate change. It's a song that doesn't simply reflect want; it reveals it.
As if relayed through flickering neon reflections on rain-soaked pavement, the vocal delivery sounds like a whisper through the static, intimate, and distant at once. The melody carries an urgency, a slow-resolving tension that reflects the track's message: In a world where everything can be bought, what's there to want when there's nothing worth paying for?
"Want That" is a sonic spelunking into the contradictions of contemporary desire. It makes you dance in the light of their reflections to feel the weight of a world learned through desire. Like any demanding work, it sticks to your ribs well after the last note.
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