Please, Wake Up is a gothic love story, though not in the traditional sense. It’s less about the genre's usual flirting with loss or death and more about acceptance and longing. Los Angeles’ dark post punk outfit DECEITS once again presents their brand of romanticism in a way that feels familiar and refreshingly new.
The song is built around a pulsing bassline, layered with atmospheric guitars and keyboards that blend seamlessly into the rhythm. These elements support and elevate the expressive vocals, uniting all the signature components that define the band’s distinctive sound.
The track builds to a powerful peak, an outro that brings the band’s vision to life, its emotion palpable and the agony vividly taking shape, like a testament to DECEITS’ gift for turning feeling into sound.
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