Digital X - The Night

Some tracks are built for headphones and some are built for a field at 1am, and The Night is unmistakably the second kind. Digital X delivers a widescreen piece of festival electronic that’s made to be heard through a wall of speakers with a few thousand people around you. The vocal is anthemic and slightly anonymous in the way these things always are, but the build is where the craft lives — a full ninety seconds of tension-winding before the drop at 1:35 finally lets go into a huge, euphoric lead. It’s big, and it only really makes sense at volume; on laptop speakers you lose most of what makes it work. There’s a nice detail in the second half where the melody gets doubled an octave up and the whole thing feels like it lifts off the ground. Digital X aren’t after novelty here — they’re after the soundtrack to a specific memory you’ll make this summer, and the aim is true. I can already hear it landing at the exact moment the fireworks go off. Save it for the dark and the crowd.

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