Tokyo Project & BB Cooper - Silhouette

The vocal on “Silhouette” comes in almost whispered, so close to the mic you can hear the breath between lines, and that intimacy is what the whole track hangs on. Tokyo Project and BB Cooper have made one of those indie-electronic songs that sounds enormous and lonely at the same time, with big reverby drums, a shimmering synth lead, and a hook that plants itself in your head by the second chorus. CloudKid has quietly become the home for exactly this sound, the melancholy-but-danceable lane, and this is a strong example of why. There’s a drop around 1:50 that trades the expected bass hit for a wash of pitched vocals, which shouldn’t work and completely does. It’s the kind of track that plays over the end credits of a film and makes you sit through them. I’ve had the chorus melody stuck in my head since this morning and I’m not mad about it. Gorgeous, a bit heartbroken, built for driving somewhere at night with nowhere to be.

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