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Clean Eyes (The Midnight remix)
Electronic · 2019

Clean Eyes (The Midnight remix)

SYML

A neon-drenched reimagining of SYML’s emotive indie-pop, where soaring falsetto meets the driving, cinematic pulse of 1980s-inspired synthwave.

February 8, 2019 · Nettwerk Music Group

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Clean Eyes (The Midnight Remix) is a masterclass in aesthetic transformation. It takes the raw, vulnerable core of SYML’s songwriting and transplants it into a cinematic world of 1980s retro-futurism. The result is a track that feels both deeply intimate and grandly expansive, like a private confession shouted over a stadium sound system. The production is thick with analog warmth, featuring the signature gated reverb and pulsing arpeggios that have made The Midnight leaders of the synthwave movement.

Moments Worth Listening For
the transition from the sparse intro to the first heavy, gated-reverb drum hit that signals the synthwave shift
the way the falsetto hook floats over the thick, pulsing bassline in the second chorus
the bridge where the synths swell into a wall of sound before dropping into a stripped-back rhythmic pulse
Where This Album DepartsEach spoke is a trait. The orange shape shows where this album pulls away from — or holds to — the rest of the artist’s catalogue. Tap for more.

How does Clean Eyes (The Midnight remix) sound next to the rest of SYML's catalogue?

Nostalgic+4.0σ

Nostalgic saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

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