Nocturno is a single release invoking feelings of desert night and the coming rains. Suntex celebrates desert landscapes described through music and captured in films, especially Italian western films. Therefore, Suntex set out to adapt “Nocturno” from a Stelio Cipriani score in his early career, “Un uomo, un cavallo, una pistola”. Nocturno pays homage to Capriani’s works.

“Suntex” is a self-titled song driven by rhythm guitar and bass that shapes ethereal sounds of both water and desert landscapes in tandem. The lead vocal’s timbre carries emotional weight evoking a sense of nostalgia and yearning. Suntex pulls an amalgam of influences ranging from 60’s surf, reggaeton-like rhythms to French film aesthetic. But, perhaps even composers such as such as Ennio Morricone or sounds of Angelo Badalamenti represented in David Lynch’s filmography. Notably, Suntex (the song) would come to be the progenitor of several subsequent arrangements.

Desert Rose embarks into a pensive venture with Pixies-like “loud -quiet-loud” pivots and transitions, eventually giving way to a fierce crescendo. Vocal and guitar melodies interlace a playful duality above the quartet’s Spanish rhythm gestures. Rachel French crafted lyrics in a way that highlights one’s exposure to vulnerabilities and questionable outcomes. Her thoughts solidify Desert Rose’s lyrics with phrases such as “Cause in the past there’s only darkness, in my eyes there is fire”.