Synth Single Review: “Werewolves’’ by Beachdolls

Beachdolls’ Werewolves explores passionate remembrance and burning need. The song starts with a lustrous synth drifting in slow waves as gruff notes play out below. Rob Nordli’s saxophone carries a melody reflecting passion and yearning, reaching out with full tones as Jessica Ess’s touching voice dreams with misty desire. The beat is heavy and persuasive while Rob Nordli riffs and creates intricately interwoven sounds.

The rhythm accelerates as Jessica Ess captures a dangerous attraction in her gripping voice. I enjoy the sheer depth of her expression as the saxophone leaps with fervent feeling, balanced with trembling need. The saxophone echoes in jazz-inflected motion as the vocals drift, aching and powerful.

The percussion batters while the levitating saxophone glides with heartfelt intensity and the underpinnings burst into colossal motion. Jessica Ess caresses my ears with her silky voice before the song powers on. Rob Nordli’s saxophone erupts in the background, pouring out untrammeled emotion as the gigantic drums collide and silence falls.

As the radio plays in the glow of the moonlight, the narrator says, “Claws are out and you’re howling.” She adds that “in the dead of night, I don’t want anyone else” because the desire is electrifying. She asks if the song’s subject wants her, pointing out that, in the neon lights, she doesn’t need anything else. The narrator ends by saying, “We’re bound by night, as hungry eyes with an echo intertwine and surround me.”