The Rocket Summer has returned with his new single, “Stuck Inside Your Light” today. Extracting bits of trip hop, electro and shoegaze, the track swirls around like a cyclone around his trademark epic chorus. The track arrives alongside an abstract, VFX heavy music video. Watch it now below.
“‘Stuck Inside Your Light’ started with a burst of auditory illumination in my studio,” says The Rocket Summer brainchild Bryce Avary. “Within minutes of picking this simple, darkly-ominous-but-happy melody, I played a quick swung groove on an MPC drum machine and my Minimoog bass synth, and blasted it on loop… I felt like I was being pulled upwards and hovering in this multi-colored spaceship of positivity.”
Capturing similar earthy soundscapes that were featured on previous single “M4U” and injecting rhythm-based trip hop textures, “Stuck Inside Your Light” showcases steady, hip-hop tinged drums and sparse looping guitar patterns that give Avary’s vocals room to breathe during the verses and soar during the uplifting chorus. This all coalesces into a sudden symphony of psychedelia guitars in the bridge, before finalizing with one last chorus as the synths and guitars squeal louder and louder. “I hope this song lifts people. It was fun for me to create a story within the instrumentation that sounded like the chain of events of being abducted and beamed up in flight. Living within the bright sparks of writing a new song has always been my main vice,” says Avary.
The accompanying mesmerizing music video depicts a mercurial being witnessing prismatic lights and kaleidoscopic displays explode into desert blooms. The hypnotizingly gorgeous video complements the music’s circular melody. “Originally I had been writing fictional stories to release as short films and / or comics and it was a massive catalyst for the music I made for this season,” says Avary. “I was essentially making soundtracks to these unreleased films stuck in my mind. While ultimately the music became the king for me, that practice of writing completely separate fictional stories really opened creative floodgates musically that I’d never really experienced before. Last year I met Seth Ringger, a visual artist, and asked him if he wanted to make a video. I lightly touched on some of the themes of the stories I was originally working on and I was amazed at what he came back with on his own. It was life giving for me to see some hints of those original ideas that informed the sonic nature of this music come full circle with this project.”