this is the last exciting thing I've seen, I love the visuals and the music and the group singing - not so keen on the lead vocal, sounds too cheesy for me. I like the mix of gramaphone sounds, old film, the puppet theatre and cycloscope, the mix of circus clown/sleight of hand manipulation stuff, the hint of sleaze and decadence, degeneration and romance. Any thing with dust and white faces, very traditional imagery and yet not often seen in a music video.
If you locked a circus in the attic of a large house and left them...
This aesthetic is either gaining more popularity at the moment or I'm being drawn further into it, it seem to surround me. It's a very well worn traditional look, which is being heavily referred too. For me this is honouring a history which we've moved away from, one of pride in skill and showmanship, of craft, innovation and care. It's a rejection of much popular culture currently available, that of cheap, mass-marketed 'plastic' objects, styles and medial. The honouring of skill in itself doesn't need to don the ragged clothes of yesteryear but the placing of these references amongst more modern motifs - that of shock, destruction, irreverence and saddness take it out of the realm of re-invention and add pathos to societies loss.
this is the last exciting thing I've seen, I love the visuals and the music and the group singing - not so keen on the lead vocal, sounds too cheesy for me. I like the mix of gramaphone sounds, old film, the puppet theatre and cycloscope, the mix of circus clown/sleight of hand manipulation stuff, the hint of sleaze and decadence, degeneration and romance. Any thing with dust and white faces, very traditional imagery and yet not often seen in a music video.
ReplyDeleteIf you locked a circus in the attic of a large house and left them...
ReplyDeleteThis aesthetic is either gaining more popularity at the moment or I'm being drawn further into it, it seem to surround me. It's a very well worn traditional look, which is being heavily referred too. For me this is honouring a history which we've moved away from, one of pride in skill and showmanship, of craft, innovation and care. It's a rejection of much popular culture currently available, that of cheap, mass-marketed 'plastic' objects, styles and medial. The honouring of skill in itself doesn't need to don the ragged clothes of yesteryear but the placing of these references amongst more modern motifs - that of shock, destruction, irreverence and saddness take it out of the realm of re-invention and add pathos to societies loss.