Dusknight's latest release, "Strut" (feat. AM.), doesn't saunter into the room, but it enters with a blast through the speakers, like a strobe light in a blackout. It's a no-limits, nitro-burning club banger for the bodies that flourish in sweat and noise, as well as a declaration of unapologetic selfhood. Dusknight has made some gut-punches, the kind you want. "Strut" was created for people who don't dance as much as they rage.
The second that first squashed vocal punches in, "Strut" lays its mission out for all to see: shake the floor, and your soul will follow; don't leave anything tidy. The drums are heavy, raw, almost primal, calling out an unwieldy rhythm that doesn't bother to ask permission but commands motion. It challenges you to dance harder, scream louder, and live bolder.
AM.'s feature brings an additive extra layer of bite to the track, weaving it all together into a beautiful collision where rage meets rhythm. It's queer, it's unapologetic and fearless in that regard, but never salacious or blithe about the violence to which Obie charges headlong. There's something cathartic in the madness here, a cacophonous, pulsing reminder that if the battle of ideas is what we've come to see on this stage and outside its doorways, then the dance floor has always been a sanctuary for rebellion, release.
"Strut" isn't courting the mainstream polish, but rather trying for the underground, that 2:00 A.M. moment when the beat falls, and sweat pours off bodies because all of a sudden, nothing exists but a night with this music in it. It's fast, unfiltered, and furious, defiantly doused in queer power. It is in that gulf between rhythm and riot, where this track resides.
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so good!
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