In the garden of forgotten souls,
where black roses bloom and die,
she mourns the lovers, lost in time,
underneath the starlit sky
Daniel Lucero, known as Santo Gato, emerges from the heart of Chicago with a devotion to electro and Italo disco’s decadent pulse. His latest EP, Draco Radio, hums with enigmatic energy, offering three tracks that shimmer with intrigue.
The lead single, Gothic at Night, creeps like a spectral figure, its eerie melodies entwined with a spectral vocoder and an uncanny spoken word, delivered by a disembodied voice. It channels the mechanical precision of Kraftwerk but bathes it in the eerie glow of something far darker—like Planet Rock haunted by an unquiet spirit – and perhaps a few members of Cabaret Voltaire and Nitzer Ebb.
The track beckons listeners into a nocturnal reverie, where longing and disquiet echo like whispers through a labyrinth of forgotten emotions. Santo Gato paints a vivid scene—a garden of black roses wilting under a celestial gaze, where love and loss entwine like serpentine coils. Angels shed silent tears in the chill of midnight rain, as ashes settle over the remnants of Eden. Santo Gato pulls listeners through a portal into a world of sorrow and desire with his unusual storytelling, where darkness reigns eternal, and untold tales linger like smoke. It’s a sonic séance, a summoning of past and present, emotion and machine.
Draco Radio hums with mechanical menace, its motorik rhythms slicing through the air like steel on stone. Eerie stabs of sound jab from the void, while spectral voices coil and howl, heralding a darkness that demands attention. The closing track, Resist Control – Pinkmachine Remix, marches forward with robotic precision, a minimalist grind that stomps and snarls, its sinister undertones pulsing with restrained fury.
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