All four corners of the earth
Adorned with their animosity
Darkened by their criminality
Evil will stop at nothing
Lovers of Evil lands like a late-night broadcast from a world slightly tilted off its axis…one of those moments when you realize the buzzing in your skull is actually the song taking hold. And It Was Night, the latest moniker from composer and sound designer Rani Sharone, arrives with the kind of restless voltage you’d expect from someone who’s spent years ghost-writing for Hollywood, touring with Puscifer, rattling stages with Stolen Babies, and hearing his own work echo through Walt Disney Concert Hall courtesy of Hilary Hahn. That résumé reads like several careers stacked inside one human body, and maybe that’s why this track feels like it’s prying open a long-sealed door.
Sharone stepped away from the busy hive of in-house composition to return to his original creative impulse: building his own strange kingdoms of dark alternative electronics. And it was Night folds together dark electronic dance music, alternative rock, EBM, and new wave with the instinct of someone following a pulse only he can hear. Nothing about it feels hesitant. It moves with purpose.
Lovers of Evil is where that purpose sharpens. Inspired by true crime and the everyday rot we’ve all grown numb to, the track hits like a strobe-lit warning flare. It flicks between a menacing lurch and big-room exuberance, a dance-floor engine built for those who prefer their fun tinged with dread. Think big beat burn, think a little glam gleam and a cold grin, as the hooks sink quickly, then twist.
“Lyrically, I got the idea after watching the first season of True Detective and how heavy it made me feel,” says Sharone. “The only way I could shake that feeling off was to write about it.” You can hear that weight pressing at the corners of the song, tightening its shoulders. But instead of collapsing inward, the track flings itself into motion: beats swinging like a hammer, synths leering, everything a little warped.
The production nods to the ’90s big beat pantheon – Sharone cites Prodigy as an influence here, but it’s filtered through his own crooked lens. “I really wanted the verses to have a sinister quality to mirror the lyrics of demons hiding in plain sight among us, and wanted the choruses to have an over the top pop quality to them with stacked vocals heavily influenced by the Sisters of Mercy, Shriekback, and Erasure. I liked the disparity between what’s being said and the feel of the music.”
Listen to Lovers of Evil below as the soundtrack to your next casual doomscroll, and order the single here.
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