A Song That Belongs to Right Now: Garzón Robie’s ‘PC CAFE’

By. Alicia Zamora

Garzón Robie has never been an artist content with coloring inside the lines, and his latest single “PC CAFE” feels like both an expansion and a refinement of that restless vision. Teaming up with electronic innovator CIFIKA, the track doesn’t just nod to Korea’s PC bang culture — it uses it as a portal to explore what it means to live, connect, and sometimes unravel inside digital spaces.

From the first seconds, “PC CAFE” sets a mood that feels stuck between being tired and being somewhere else entirely. The synths don’t just sit in the background — they glow, almost like the light off a row of computer screens at 2 a.m. CIFIKA’s voice drifts in and out, soft and haunting, like something you can’t quite hold onto. The track doesn’t care about a clean pop structure; it moves the way a late-night gaming session does — looping, hypnotic, and strangely comforting.

The lyrics don’t spell anything out. Instead, they throw out fragments — Discord, caffeine, death, rebirth — words that float by like passing thoughts in a long night. That scattered feeling works, because being young online often feels like that: quick bursts of meaning, then gone. The production carries that same push and pull, caught between burnout and adrenaline, as if it’s trying to catch what it feels like to always be connected and drained at the same time.

The music video, directed by Jaejun Kim, sharpens this vision. Rather than glamorizing the virtual, it emphasizes connection itself — the idea that whether you’re sitting in front of a monitor or across from someone in real life, what matters is the human impulse to reach out.

What really makes “PC CAFE” stay with you isn’t just the idea behind it — it’s how it doesn’t try to be nostalgic or force some big statement. It doesn’t romanticize the internet or turn it into some dark warning either. Garzón Robie and CIFIKA just let it exist the way it actually feels — messy, overwhelming, still weirdly human. The song doesn’t talk about this moment so much as feel like it’s part of it, like it couldn’t have come from any other time but now.