‘Half Light II (No Celebration)’ keeps us in the 80s, musically speaking, with a synth-bass concoction that sounds a lot like New Order.

But lyrically, the song jumps ahead in time. The kid who ran around his suburban neighborhood at dusk in ‘Half Life I’ has since left home for the east coast. But now he is invited back and finds that the town where he spent his youth has changed.

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