Eternity In Nothing

Cindy Lee “Lucifer Stand”

“Lucifer Stand” is built around a keyboard vamp that sounds like a hollowed out version of Goldfrapp in their electro-glam phase. Everything else in the mix seems to echo off the walls implied by that riff, with the vocals sounding especially distant from wherever you are in this. Cindy Lee doesn’t overdo it, keeping the tone from getting too campy in its spookiness, or too deep into horror film soundtrack territory. The context of the song is revealed at the end, as you hear a recording of a woman giving a testimony that ends with her saying she’d rather “spend eternity in nothing” than to spend eternity with Satan. The lyrics take that premise but take the notion of eternity in nothingness with Satan as a beautiful promise rather than a horrifying fate. The song begs for this oblivion – “remove me, if only for a night.”

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