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NineFortyFive wastes no time cutting to the chase and so neither will I. What we have here is a gothic post-punk track that has its feet firmly rooted in the 1980s, closer to a band like Sisters of Mercy than The Cure, and it's really good!

Structurally, _NineFortyFive is a fairly standard verse chorus verse style pop song, but the simplicity is why the song thrives. The chorus line "Thrill me, thrill me, still me" feels anthemic in a way that many songs would dream of. The track is driven by this muted guitar riff and punchy beat, and that serves as a basis for pMad to build their textures on. There's sweeping guitar licks, haunted choirs, and these deep booming vocals, and all of it's drowning in reverb. All of allows for the track to feel super dynamic, swelling for the choruses and then dipping back down, and I found myself feeling pretty impressed by how effortless it feels.

Lyrically, the song seems to be wrestling with mortality, or perhaps rejecting it entirely. With lines like "Death came knocking at my gate, I could not accept my fate", there's a youthful rejection of one's fate and a belief that even once the body dies the spirit lives on, whether through the impact left upon the world, or in a literal theological sense.

Truthfully, the lyrics don't seem to be the point here, at least not when observed too closely. What the lyrics achieve is augmenting the dark tone already created by the instrumentation and the production, and in that regard they're very effective. It means very little to me to read the words "Immortal, forever, forever", but when you hear it in the song you can feel it in your bones, and that's why this track rules.