Kevin Bronson on June 3rd, 2019

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WVM is the dark synth-pop project of musician and visual artist David Alvarez, whose music has been licensed to several TV shows and video games and whose sound is rooted in the ’80s, with a conceptual bent.

“Immortal Eye,” the first single from EP “Eye On” that WVM will release this year, sounds like the collision of Electric Light Orchestra and Gary Numan or Depeche Mode, with processed vocals slip-sliding over the top of propulsive analog synths and robo-beats. They combine to add a nervous urgency to the songwriter’s explorations of the id.

“The songs [on the EP] gravitated toward a theme of ‘eye,’ but it’s a bit of a double entendre, meaning your eye and I,” Alvarez says. “All of which we experience is perception through our eyes, ears, nose, touch. It is who we are, perception is subjective. I find it fascinating that reality is so different for everyone so I titled the EP ‘Eye On,’ which is a play on words for ion, and has to do with the fact that the human eye influences the actions of particles in a double slit experiment. It’s really mind-bending when you think of it. So much of who we are is based on perceptions of ourselves, thus ‘Eye On,’ but it has a further meaning that my eye is turned on.”

On this single, the eyes have it.

||| Stream: “Immortal Eye”