The final track of a concept album is a sacred thing. It’s where all the pressure lands as the emotional climax, the resolution, the goodbye (or the not-so-goodbye). With ‘Take Me Home’, Sunrise in Jupiter does what so many try and few accomplish: they stick the landing.
Closing out the first half of their double album ‘Mission to Mars’, the band look to light the sky on fire. The single acts as both a culmination and a catharsis, channelling the isolated ache of a cosmic journey that’s drifted far from familiarity. This is less a gentle descent and more a flare shot into the dark, begging for some sign that someone’s still listening.
Built around expansive instrumentation and an atmosphere that teeters between celestial serenity and emotional chaos, ‘Take Me Home’ bleeds sincerity. There’s a weight to the guitar lines that mirrors the lyrical plea for connection, while the vocals carry a cracked, searching quality that feels less performed and more lived-in. It’s cinematic without falling into bombast, soaring without sounding overproduced.
If ‘Mission to Mars’ is a voyage, ‘Take Me Home’ is the moment the crew wonders if Earth still wants them back, or worse, if Earth even remembers they left. It’s a beautiful kind of despair, one that makes you want to lie on the floor, stare at your ceiling, and wonder what parts of you are still out there, waiting to return.
Musically, there are threads here pulled from early Muse, the yearning dramatics of U2’s ‘The Joshua Tree’, and a bit of that post-apocalyptic shimmer My Chemical Romance perfected on ‘Danger Days’. But don’t mistake this for pastiche as Sunrise in Jupiter are carving their own constellation in the alt-rock universe, and ‘Take Me Home’ proves they know exactly how to navigate emotional gravity.
If this is the sound of the first volume ending, the second better come with oxygen tanks. Listen when you’re missing someone, something, or some version of yourself, and you don’t know how to ask the universe for it back.
