Blog: Idolator

With just one more day to go before the release of Owl City 's new album The Midsummer Station (pre-order on iTunes here ), we're giving Adam Young's fans an early listen to the track "Metropolis". It's a soaring number brimming with warm synths and a stomping beat that Young produced himself and co-wrote with his friend Matthew Thiessen of Reliant K (who also wrote OC's chart-topping 2009 smash "Fireflies" with Adam). "Like a hijacked plane, or a runaway train, or a speeding bullet / there's [...]