Dark wave with a slow, pulsing four-on-the-floor under icy arpeggios and a tense tom pattern; verse stays stripped to low synth pulse, brittle keys, and close-mic vocal; pre-chorus opens with filtered noise and rising harmony stacks; chorus drops into wide bass, gated snare, and a short chant hook. Breathy lead with doubled lines, whispered ad-libs, delay throws on the last word of each hook, and a cold glossy mix with tape haze, reversed swells, and metallic chimes between phrases., dark wave