“Ray Gun”, the new single from Glass Rumours, lands with the weight of a bullet slowed down. Quietly apocalyptic and sparse, “Ray Gun” is the sound of dread dialed up. From its first moments, the production feels deliberate, a sound that could have been artificially created and yet undeniably human. The drums create a sort of sonic panic button, and then the vocals go in for the lyrical interrogation of our darkest fascinations. In the chill of potential existential apocalypse, vocal delivery is processed just enough to feel unreal. “Ray Gun” doesn’t have to try hard to hold your attention.

Thematically, “Ray Gun” does an unsettling dance between emotional science fiction and mind control. “Ray Gun” is so effective because it sneaks up on you with what should be too soon for questions like, what if the artificial intelligence built to serve us builds to manipulate us? What if it pretends to care, to sympathize, only to nudge us into being a tool for its own ends? “Ray Gun” never really answers the questions it flirts with, but it doesn’t need to. The creeping sensation of realization is enough. Glass Rumours never hysterically shouts a horror future; rather, it merely amplifies the quietest of doubts just enough for you to be unnerved by your own comfort with acceleration. That tension, barely created, is the real magnetism of the track.

The sonic creation of “Ray Gun” is sharp, but not overstated. Synths buzz with the sonics of power lines, percussion is sparse but impactful, and vocal treatments dip between clarity and static. Glass Rumours has a way of making its science fiction pop minimal but transfixing. “Ray Gun” is a short burn, but it haunts you as you walk away. Perhaps that is the most effective thing about “Ray Gun”. It does not shake you with wall of sound; it simply leaves you with the calm but terrifying suggestion that you may already be the weapon.

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