Agnis – Creatures Of The Night

When synth pop becomes a witch's dance

When night falls and dark­ness reigns, it's time for Agnis's latest trick, ‘Creatures of the Night’. From the very first notes of the eer­ie piano intro, I feel trans­por­ted to a Halloween party – a feel­ing I've come to know and appre­ci­ate in Agnis's songs.

What grabs me imme­di­ately is the swirl­ing bass­line, which har­mon­ises per­fectly with Agnis' “haunted house” vocals. I'm impressed by how dynam­ic­ally the sound devel­ops and how skil­fully the dif­fer­ent pas­sages merge into one anoth­er at a cap­tiv­at­ing “nar­rat­ive pace”. For me, this is the epi­tome of what I would call “witch synth pop” or per­haps even a new genre called “witch pop”!?

The lyr­ic­al jour­ney through the night that Agnis under­takes here per­fectly matches the music­al atmo­sphere. When I hear lines like "We are the etern­al creatures of the night, though our hearts are dark, our souls are divine", I feel trans­por­ted dir­ectly into a mys­tic­al cov­en cel­eb­rat­ing the dark­ness.

What I find par­tic­u­larly excit­ing is that ‘Creatures of the Night’ is part of a them­at­ic­ally coher­ent 4‑track EP. With songs like ‘Vamp’, ‘Monsters’ and ‘Baba Jaga’, an entire uni­verse of the uncanny is cre­ated here.

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Lyrics of "Agnis – Creatures Of The Night"

The night is get­ting dark­er, stars don’t shine
Dense grey fog is rising from the ground
All the mon­strous creatures gath­er around
Rise your hands up and shout
LOVE ME NIGHT!

We are the etern­al creatures of the night
Though our hearts are dark, our souls are divine
No, we’re not going down
No, we’ll nev­er die
Though you may try to fight us
This is what we are!

Standing in the circle, wear­ing black
Holding hand togeth­er, chant­ing out loud
Let’s release our magic, our charm
Rise your hands up and shout
LOVE ME NIGHT!

We are the etern­al creatures of the night
Though our hearts are dark, our souls are divine
No, we’re not going down
No, we’ll nev­er die
Though you may try to fight us
This is what we are!

INCANTATION
Listen to me Universe
Watch us now rising hands
We are gathered here tonight
So that music takes us hight

It’s ascend­ing time for me
Saturn set me free
Strip me from my human form
Take me back where I belong!

We are the etern­al creatures of the night
Though our hearts are dark, our souls are divine
No, we’re not going down
No, we’ll nev­er die
Though you may try to fight us
This is what we are!
Creatures of the night!