There is a magic to those late August nights when the air grows thick with memory and each sunset feels like the close of another chapter. Lost in the City bottles it perfectly with their new single “Twilight of Summer.” The single was written in their self-described “lab” outside Kansas City, and recorded in Lenexa, KS at Red Roof Productions, and the track buzzes with the antsy teenage energy that defined early-2000s pop-punk.
This is a love letter to that moment between growing up and letting go. The guitars anchor the heft of bands like Fall Out Boy and Paramore, while the melodies lunge with youthful urgency that feels both familiar and new. “Twilight of Summer” is intimate, almost like reading an old journal entry. The song evokes the experience of being 13 again, waiting by every phone call that never comes, and lacking the words for what aches inside you.
For all its emotional heft, the track never buckles beneath the weight of grief. Instead, it glows with warmth and hope, a testament that endings can be as golden. “Twilight of Summer” captures the charm of Lost in the City perfectly. They know how to make you feel something and have fun doing it. With “Twilight of Summer,” Shane Radford, Andy David, Tyler Hicks, and Danny Davis have written a coming-of-age anthem for anyone who can still feel what it’s like to be young in the summer, when endless days seem possible and music can make your world infinite.