The Lightning Struck drops new dreamy anthem with "In Her Dreams Tonight" [Review]

Toronto's The Lightning Struck gets it right that storytelling in indie rock is alive, weird, and wonderfully wistful on their new single, "In Her Dreams Tonight." The song is lifted from their just-released album, Century Storm, a 17-song odyssey whittled to perfection. This focus track exemplifies how the band intermingles old-school stylistic panache with heady emotional heft. It's a weird blend of science fiction heartache filtered through surf rock, and for some reason, it's absolutely beguiling.

"In Her Dreams Tonight" is like a sun-soaked daydream rolled in existential dread. Shimmering guitars lifted from a '60s beach movie crash into lyrics possessed by isolation and cosmic homesickness. Based on Fritz Leiber's short story "The Ship Sails at Midnight," the track tells the story of an alien stuck in a failing human body who hangs helplessly as their home world becomes a memory they can no longer reach. The concept could collapse under its own ambition, but The Lightning Struck succeeds with it without breaking a sweat, and they keep melody rooted at their core.

"Century Storm" lives up to the promise of "In Her Dreams Tonight." It is intimate and uncanny, immediate and philosophical. You feel that every note, lyric, and surfy guitar twang was chosen with intention. There's something subversively joyous about shrouding deep sadness in reverb-soaked joy. It's the musical equivalent of smiling through tears, is what it feels like, and that's the magic of all this. The neon-tinted truths it pales under the late-night sky are the kind that sticks around, and while "In Her Dreams Tonight" is one to quietly make room for on your shelf of keepsakes. The Lightning Struck have handed us a dream worth waking up to.

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