There was hysteria when Jai Paul’s debut record leaked. The internet detonated as the 16 tracks were trafficked, darned and honoured. Comments came rapidly, with people remarking in myriad forums- “this version of Jasmine is different”, “the second track is fucking sickk!!”, “The bass on this”. The album was studied and sought moreover after the news broke that the record was not sanctioned, not a proper, interconnected record but a put-together chaotic leak, each track was named, meticulous and narrated.

But what the internet neglected was All Night or “Track 15" for those who succeeded in getting a copy in the first day of its release. “Night” is a luscious, serene ceasefire that concludes the anthology of cavalcade cadence and ear-rupturing beats. The song opens on Tomb Raider dialogue to set the tone for its sultry topography which is seemingly shot down by darts of synths and it is only then, that the song exhausts with resounding bass that pushes like roaring waves. But Jai is not left silenced- as his hiccuping vocals sing of an established and full love. Paul got his prominence through songs like Jasmine and BTSTU, but in through them Paul was broken and now he is whole, pronouncing an adoration that he has hunted for his whole life, and the fact that only now it has been recognised.

Said just before a killer drop at 1:50 into the track, Jarr’s one line of dialogue on Metatron is peculiar, a cut off sentence that is concluded via the thump and bass of Darkside’s complex instrumentalism.

The title of the song alludes to Metatron, an archangel in Judaism. According to Jewish medieval stories, he is Enoch, ancestor of Noah, transformed into an angel. He is often cited as evidence of Enoch’s bodily ascension into heaven:

And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him."

Although he is mentioned in a few brief passages in the Talmud, Metatron appears primarily in medieval Jewish mystical texts. In Rabbinic tradition, he is the highest of the angels and serves as the celestial scribe.

Look deeper and we se that the song’s title is a word of two words: Meta is a prefix that is used to show a concept which is an obscurity from another concept, used to conclude or add to the latter.

Whereas Tron has science fiction connotations alluding to the famous sci-fi films and used as a suffix to describe somthing in a technical form aka Jumbotron.

The meaning therefore, could infer a digital concept, one that is completely different from a concept twinned to it. Is this a self-description of Darkside themselves? Comprised of an analog instrumentalist (Harrington) and a digital wizard (Jarr), Darkside in itself is a combination of two unattatched powers working cohesively to release material that sounds natural yet industrial, a self contradiction, a paradox, a Metatron.

This song begins by being accompnied by a gradual beat and a flare of insidious yet flirtatious energy. The song develops its own noirish story, as reverb-painted guitar strikes are admist.

The low key bass that darkens Jaar’s vocals on the blues of the song has its own magnetism and in the song’s middle, the magnum opus finally blossoms, as the song releases an intense dark sound.

Heart is a mesmerising journey down the yellow brick road with the soundtrack of riotous tribal drums, said tribal thump of manages to make The Black Keys, BB King and even Boards of Canada seem like a likely fusion.