Dark and brooding, while being strangely alluring, Under Delusion’s ‘Runaway’ is a bewitching piece of synth rock that entirely seizes your undivided focus and attention. It’s a nigh hypnotic piece that doesn’t waste a singular moment to completely overwhelm you. The experiential dark wave record from the Russian rockers feels like an escape, an expedition that lets you entirely detach and fall into a world you might yearn to be in while being trapped in something much more mundane and cynical.
There’s a romanticism to ‘Runaway’, but it’s shrouded in a darkness, a brooding and lamenting energy that somehow has the song feeling somewhat liberating but also deeply unsettling and troubling. Traversing the boundaries of traditional electronic and synth soundscapes with more obvious rock ones, Runaway not only finds a niche for its own, but a sensibility that has you strangely enraptured.