https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRfXNl9eefg

Great song, love your work.

I wanted to go with a similar concept in one of my tracks around starting at 2:11. That break.
Whenever I try and create some sort of tension, it always falls so flat.

It seems so simple in my head:

1 pad
1 maybe sub bass
1 main melody with a lot of delay
1 main arp
1 misc instrument creating a bell like sound

But I'm failing so hard. A little embarrassed to be asking, tbh. Any help is appreciated.