“Static Interlude” is bound by its overwhelming sense of pressure and its escapade for its release. The song starts as an intense and unsuspecting sheen of a million candles. A taut baseline with percussion varying from clucking of the tongues to sputtery hi-high hats, all synchronizing with the snare to create a satisfying punch. Just after Aurum‘s first words, “That’s the way it goes,” a tinny synth is tucked underneath her vocals, slacking the tension and allowing her to say what the music has been articulating the entire time: she needs him real fucking bad.
Aurum‘s sonorous and orotund vocals, “Doing 99/on the 65/trying to get to you/ I’m so excited,” captures the arm-twisting the mind sends her in to get what she wants. It’s overwhelming; time constraints and text threads are the external pressure that makes the heart a hull doomed to implode.
