With a new, blood-chilling track, "Vampire - Radio Edit," Death by Selfie drops their most radical reinvention. Defying its established palette, this song is a series of firsts for the pair. It's their first full-English release, a departure from the vocoder and their debuts behind the synthesizers and sequencers themselves.
Pounding basslines and poison synths ensure this one has a sinister feel, perfect for the lyrical content. This is not about capes or coffins. The vampire, this time, is much more insidious, the emotionally manipulative creature heard throughout everyday life, the friend who drains your energy with each exchange.
This makes "Vampire - Radio Edit" not just an experience but a psychological experience. Death by Selfie taps into a feeling, the betrayal by someone who smirked in your face while plotting your undoing. The beat is heavy and deliberate, nearly hypnotic, and the synths wind like smoke through the shadows. There's something inescapably toxic about the melody, and that's the whole point.
Mixed and mastered by JP Boffo and cloaked in the evocative artwork of Andy Talovikov, "Vampire - Radio Edit" is a band forging new paths from within. It's cold and thought-through and oddly cathartic, like when you finally see the blood that was dripping in plain sight. With this record, Death by Selfie shows that if they mean business, they are at least tightening the grip with their jaws.
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Reviewed by LyricalOdyssey Music
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May 09, 2025
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