Another cute baby picture, another left-field pop tune from Dessert. This time the Los Angeles trio make a slight return to the early days of their music, where animated dogs, interactive websites and experimental production reigned before their increasing diversion into euphoric alternative pop. Out of all of their first releases, we can draw a line to ‘Player’ and more specifically to the detached lyric “Friday is a blessing”, a theme which we hear again in the very first sample of ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ which cheerily declares “Thank god it’s Friday!” We can suggest a link here, comparing the then and now. Then: dreaming of Friday. Now: Friday is here, but it’s not quite what was pictured. The playful disco synths, hip-hop and dance samples, and stuttering beats make the listener feel like this is a fun track, one to start the weekend with, but Dessert’s vocalist implies something different. Repeatedly he asks “what’s my future in a system of cosmic amnesiacs?”. His voice distorted against the hyperactive electronics and it doesn’t receive an answer. In the each woozy refrain, our protagonist states “Life’s so simple, like this -”, promptly drawing a blank on the lyric front, Dessert illustrate their point with more instrumental variation, including a searing synth-key progression. As a last note, could this song be taking it’s name from Stanley Kubrick’s 1999 film Eyes Wide Shut? A movie full of mirrors and connections, but mostly indirect and at the will of the watcher’s inferred interpretation. Just a thought for you. - HT