Following remixes of ‘Can’t Stop Me’ and ‘African Drop’, Tom Staar returns to Afrojack’s Wall Recordings to aid Style Of Eye’s inauguration to the label with a new original track of theirs.
In ‘After Dark’, we see a different side from what we have come to associate with this Swedish-British duo. Rallying strong melodics and a seductive male top line rather than hammering beat work, ‘After Dark’ pays further testament to their ability to master more than one solitary subgenre.
Out February 25th.
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Bruce Wayne says:
This is what the people want, I guess.
John says:
Won’t go into the ”THIS SHYT IS COMMERCIALS!?!?!?!?” aspect of the track, but I think this shows the strongest sides of Style of Eye – if not in terms of the quality, then versatility. Definitely still one of the most underrated producers out there. Even though I detest the subjective ”conversations” of commerciality of music, I secretly hope his rise to fame would’ve been with his earlier stuff – to me this sounds like it could’ve easily been written and produced Alesso (or Seb, for that matter). Every recording that ever gets released is commercial. You can do it well and hold your flag, you can try out new things or you can ”sell out”, differing by definition.
Overall this preview makes the track stand out at 2/5. I was going to give it three out of five, but I couldn’t distinguish Staar nor Style of Eye’s distinctive production techniques, so I took off some icing from the top for unoriginality. Peace out.
que says:
not what i expected at all…
wurl says:
although i too expected something different entirely, i like it more with every listen
amos says:
i was hoping for a hardhitting weird ass banger but guess they wanted a radio track,
lol
Mr Marvin says:
Tom Staars Pattern break and percussion techniques, Style of Eye type melodies and synths
hrvoje42 says:
This is better then most stuff released on Wall
Ivan Wiktorin Gahnfelt says:
It’s like no one even cares about the build anymore…
Bandis says:
What John said.
Bruce Kable says:
Meh.
I just wish he released Headlights. That, to me, was the perfect balance between a commercially playable track and Style of Eye’s sound. Oh well.
(for the people who don’t know the track: https://soundcloud.com/styleofeye/headlights )
Sebastian says:
Agree with the guy over me, headlights must be his best track. Still it’s not that wierd that he goes ”pop” or ”commercially” because afterall he produced many of the tracks to Icona Pop’s album, and both I love it and we got the world became very mainstream this autumn, atleast in Sweden
Skofild says:
Wow ! Thanks for mentioning Hedlights. Didn’t hear about that track before but I love it !
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O.W says:
I love Style Of Eye. But this track makes me sad… Sorry
melfres says:
headlights is dope as fuck, screw this one. been replaying headlights on sc since he posted it
Johanna says:
ok, but not more. headlights is freakin amazing tho! it’s available on spotify in sweden atleast, http://open.spotify.com/track/1Em5Ihq7Ke6OtITRjMneTY
Tom says:
This is a decent track for sure. No more than that. I love Tom Staar’s work with Kryder and I usually love Style of Eye’s work as well. But this disappointed me. How unfortunate.
Fluff says:
I think this is amazing!
Manual says:
I agree with Fluff
zika says:
Am I the only one around here that loved it?
Philipp says:
Without Vocals it is a great Track!