See Charlotte Kemp Muhl's chilling take on apocalypse.
is ready to debut their first song of 2020. Titled "Debris," on the track, the band ditches the fuzzy guitar and thrashing drums of their past songs for piano and an ornate entourage of strings; It's got all the landmarks of an apocalyptic blockbuster soundtrack, which probably explains the track's impressive accompanying video: amash-up, complete with face prosthetics and eerie middle America wandering.
In the visual, a hawk is on fire, a wall of TVs replay John F Kennedy's assassination, and Kemp Muhl, James and Strange traverse the icy grounds of a Midwest clearing. The allegories feel endless, but over email Kemp Muhl offers a more quotidian backstory to the song: "It's something I wrote during a break up, using the end of the world as a metaphor for the tectonic collisions and molten debris of a war torn relationship, or something cheery like that.
See the ghostlight of other TVs flickering across the drained swimming pool in the motel courtyard. Each channel you switch beheads Samurai, cowboys and porn stars mid groan, your thumb the lazy executioner.Fall asleep as the emergency broadcast chimes and the station drops to the static of a nuclear missile warning.Then the voices begin. Whispering, whispering... Pulling you through doors to other manifolds of space time... You are not alone. You were never alone.
In your quote about the song, you guys describe a scene of Cold War-era middle America on the brink of nuclear war. What is behind the fascination with that time period? Kemp Muhl: We have entered an age where religious ideologies and nuclear technology coexist. This alone is a terrifying concept, plus the fact that humanity is like Icarus, flirting with how close we can get to the sun of technology before our wax wings melt. I like the connection with televisions and evangelists in that quote by Cae — because our video is about a cult. A post apocalyptic cult that worship radio activity and live by the motto “Mutate Or Die”.
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