There may not be a huge amount of info about Fade Runner out there, but with songs as entrancingly beautiful as "Eye-Xplosive" (from the Geometric Smoke EP, due out July 8), it hardly matters. Delicate synth keys bubble and pop in and out of the track like bouncy, viscous droplets of rain on a trampoline. What really stands out is the clear influence of Japanese pop and video game composers like Nobuo Uematsu (out to the Final Fantasy stans who have every soundtrack on CD); the effect is a technicolour symphony of sounds that are at once futuristic and nostalgic, all achieved without straight-up ripping the whole sound off. Take a listen below.
Premiere: Fade Runner Shares Technicolour New Single "Eye-Xplosive" From Upcoming EP
Like bouncy, viscous droplets of rain on a trampoline.
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