Darren Styles feat. MERYLL - Miss You

Darren Styles has been a titan of the harder, faster end of dance music for longer than some of his current fans have been alive, so seeing him land on Armada with Miss You is a fun crossover. This leans more melodic and trance-adjacent than his hardcore roots, but the signature Styles energy is still all over it. MERYLL’s vocal is the emotional core, soaring over a production that builds with the kind of euphoric urgency Darren Styles basically invented. The track wears its heart on its sleeve and makes zero apologies for it. This is unashamed, hands-in-the-air rave music with a slightly tearful edge, and I am completely here for it. There’s a moment in the breakdown where everything strips back to just the vocal and a single synth before the whole thing rushes back in, and it gets me every time. Styles knows exactly which emotional buttons to press because he’s been pressing them for twenty years. Miss You is festival catharsis in song form. Put it on, think about someone you miss, then dance the feeling off. That’s the whole point.

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