Synth Single Review: “Sunsets of Summer’’ by Spring Break '83

Spring Break ’83’s Sunsets of Summer is a journey through summer love. The song starts as a densely interwoven synth limns the music in warm light while the lead singer’s gauzy voice transmits breezy energy. The rhythm is steady on the big drums as 10eighty6’s synth flickers like the sun on the water. INDIGO’s honeyed fragility carries the dreaming melody as the chimes contribute radiance.

I am drawn to the whisper-soft performance as the chorus combines 10eighty6 and INDIGO’s vocals with a positive embrace. The drum beat becomes a metronomic pulse as the lightly touching chorus dances through the music. INDIGO exhales with all the tenderness of a zephyr lightly brushing one’s skin.

The chorus is full of tentative hope and affection as a glittering synth leaps through the music. The rhythm guides while crystalline bells glint with sunlight and INDIGO’s voice carries. The drums drop as broadly luminescent notes rebound and the vocalists create a lovely harmony. The bells glitter again, a broader synth echoes and the tapping drums continue. The beat launches as the main melody interweaves with the solid bass and the gentleness of the vocals enfolds me before the track ends.

Our storyteller “picked a shell from the sand just to show you I like you,” and tossed a rock at the ocean “just to see if you care.” She and the song’s subject just met, and their eyes also met as she asked, “Can we be this yet? Can we do this yet?”

The two of them “fell for each other just for the summer.” Our storyteller has her hair mussed by the wind, but the other person tells her she looks all right. She concludes, “Sun goes down in an hour, will you stay with me late?”