RETRACTILAITORS (Atmospheric Mellow Version)

Single Review

Written by Kineograph

A mellow synthwave song about rising from rust and neon dreams that never fade, sung by a neon woman into a glittering microphone while two robots face each other, nose to nose.

The sound of rust and neon

The track is mellow atmospheric synthwave, mid-tempo, dreamy and melancholic. The female vocal is clear in enunciation, slightly breathy and AI-sounding, and it suits the register — a voice that sounds like it comes from the ruins it is singing about. The production is clean and spacious. What I missed was a lift: the song stays in one mood from the opening to the instrumental outro, and by the third minute I was waiting for a turn that never came.

Two robots, one microphone

The video stays in a neon cyberpunk register throughout. It opens on a close-up of a woman’s face with glowing pink and red neon lines on her skin, pink eyes, large glowing headphones, singing into a glittering microphone in a gloved hand, with the on-screen title, a QR code burned into the top-right corner and the “LKYNET” logo at the bottom. At 0:57 two robot heads face each other in profile, noses nearly touching — a black robot with a blue ring eye and a white robot with a glowing blue eye, pink and blue bokeh behind. At 1:54 another close-up of the neon woman singing into the microphone, red and pink light on her face. The last twenty seconds are instrumental over neon city and robot imagery.

The lyric is the mythology

The writing is the strongest element. “We rise from rust from dust we break born of neon dreams that never fade”, “Echoes of Steel and circuits cry in the ruins of progress we refuse to die”, “from Silent Warehouse to the starfilled sky we’ll defy the algorithms we’ll Learn to Fly”, “synthetic veins pulse with a forgotten spark in the void we sing igniting the dark” — the lines are specific, they build a world, and they match the images on screen. The description is in Spanish, and it frames the track as combining the best of synthwave and electronics in a unique visual experience; the song itself is sung in English.

Best Moment (0:57)

Final Thoughts

A dreamy, melancholic synthwave single with a specific lyric and a cyberpunk world that holds together. The QR code on every frame is a real presentation flaw, the tempo never lifts, and the lip-sync is loose — but the robots facing each other is an image I will keep, and the lyric earns the listen.

We rise from rust, and we refuse to die.

Scene Breakdown

0:00–0:30 — Close-up of a woman’s face with glowing pink/red neon lines on her skin, pink eyes, large glowing headphones, singing into a glittering microphone; on-screen title, QR code top right, “LKYNET” logo bottom centre.

0:30–1:30 — Neon cyberpunk imagery; at 0:57 two robot heads in profile face each other, noses nearly touching, pink/blue bokeh behind.

1:30–2:55 — Another close-up of the neon woman singing into the microphone, red/pink light on her face; the chorus repeats from 2:13.

2:55–3:16 — Instrumental outro over neon city and robot imagery.

Single by LKYNET. Credits are as stated in the video’s own description; everything else is from our own listening and viewing.