OrangePeelMystic: “High One”

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Written By Michael Gutierrez

Darkwave energy fed through the looking glass of a vanity mirror. It’s OrangePeelMystic. Reverb-drenched hairbrush vocals. Shades of Salem meets Bow Wow Wow. At 3:08 you’re in & out pretty quick. No peaks and valleys, just straight sonic wallpaper pasted over miles of flat midwestern highway. Nothing stopping this banger from having a 15-minute extended dance remix though. Just add a few bass drops and call it a night on a Berlin dancefloor at four in the morning.

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