The guys tell me that there are several misinterpretations of their work that need to be debunked. When I emailed their publicist asking if they were down to do press, I was told they would do their first interview around the new album - so I flew to Berlin to meet them. The music video for “AWOL” showed human faces for the first time. The new music featured a computerized voice they called “Oracle,” as well as collaborator Pan Daijing singing discernable lyrics rather than their usually scrambled syllables. Last month, Amnesia Scanner announced their debut album, Another Life, out today on Berlin label PAN. Between the tongue-in-cheek PR emails, meme culture references, and devious imagery - their latest T-shirts feature a faceless baby-like figure bent over with an eyeball over where its asshole should be - they were also kind of funny, in a trolly, impish hacker kind of way. They produced a song for Mykki Blanco and collaborated with Holly Herndon on her album Platform.
#MOOG AMNESIA LYRICS FULL#
It quickly evolved into a denser style full of hooky synths, thick beats, and heavy bass, while embracing catchy pop sensibilities and a certain raw emotiveness that keeps it dancefloor-friendly (at least for the freaks). Their early music was abstract and mechanic - alarm beeps and shattering glass churning over stuttering trap beats and icy grime synths. Here’s what we knew: Amnesia Scanner is two guys who were part of a Berlin electronic scene percolating around artists like Lotic and Arca, as well as parties like Janus, in the early 2010s, when club music was being deconstructed and pieced into mutant post-genre forms. No one knew what it meant Pitchfork described the project as “a puzzle that might kill you once you’ve solved it.” It was like catnip for a certain breed of rave conspiracy theorists. Somehow, all of these elements seem vaguely connected - like you’re touching parts of an alien without being able to see its full form. The only verbal clues of this world they seemed to be building came in a 14-minute mixtape called AS ANGELS RIG HOOK, where - over a backdrop of ambient noise, washes of reverb, and squeaking synths - a narrator evokes an impressionistic tableau with references to everything from Drexciya to François Rabelais, polluted oceans, Club Mate, and UV face tattoos.
None of the blogs could figure out much about the anonymous project Amnesia Scanner didn’t do interviews, and press releases winkingly described them as “Xperienz Designers.” Their website is a virtual junkyard, each click drawing you further into layers of illegible symbols and randomly generated images from Reddit and 4chan.
0 kommentar(er)
