Surfing through blurred memories
Away from reality
In this void I’m drifting
Our wave crashed at hyperspeed
After two years off the grid, Covstline returns with a new single, Hyperspeed, diving headfirst into the gleam of old synth-pop machinery, dragging something panicked and personal along with it. The duo out of Portland, producer Evan Kinzer and vocalist Saul Tajonar, lock into a fevered groove here that carries the snap of New Order, the chrome kiss of Depeche Mode, a bit of Billy Idol’s teased-up danger, and the nightclub menace of TR/ST and Ultra Sunn, but they never come off like tourists rummaging through a thrift-store decade.
The beat has that clean, clipped crack that makes your shoulders start moving before your mind can mount a defense, while the synths smear across the background like headlights on wet pavement. You can feel the tension between motion and paralysis. Kinzer stacks these tones so they feel sleek, and when the track opens up into that larger, heavier descent, it lands with force. There is some EDM in its bloodstream, but it gets folded into the song’s bruised mood instead of treated like a gimmick dropped in to goose the crowd.
Tajonar’s emotive voice has a ragged urgency that keeps the song from becoming a stylish little exercise in retro mood. He sings like a man trying to outrun his own thoughts and discovering they’ve already beaten him to the next town. Hyperspeed is a song about being trapped in the wreckage of old desires, staring at your life like it’s a stalled engine, wondering whether you’re mourning a lost love, a lost self, or simply your nerve. The words circle those questions with a desperate repetition…precisely how dread works when it has you cornered.
Underneath all the gleam, all the club-floor velocity, there’s a minor existential problem chewing through the wires: risk, regret, and the terror of realizing reverse gear is gone. That’s a rich subject for a band newly relocated, newly recommitted, and apparently ready to kick in the door of Portland’s goth scene. Hyperspeed is a dance track with bite in its teeth and bruises on its ribs.
Listen to Hyperspeed below and order the single here.
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