WL//WH Premiere Pam Risourie
After a quiet year on the heels of their praised debut LP “Days of Distortion”, the Paris-based five-piece Shoegaze collective Pam Risourié unveils the first excerpt, titled “Moth,” from their second studio album, “I’ll Never Be Human,” via Shoredive Records, scheduled for next September, whose DIY video WL//WH is very pleased to premiere.
The French band concocts a distinctive, intriguing chiaroscural sonic thread of three-guitar laden shoegaze that seamlessly incorporates elements of dream pop, post-punk, post-rock and slowcore.
“Moth” delves into an immersive mind-melting nighttime ride through the disarray and darkness of the inner self, amid tension, fragility, and pain, that sensually encompasses and profoundly shakes at the same time.
The song urges an oneiric, visceral agony of hypnotic trudging drum beats alongside doomy bass throbs and nervous iterative keys over which obsessive and seductive layers of secretive, desperate vocals gently expand, fragment, and lose strength under a jagged, ringing, and relentless turbulent sky of pain-filled, stabbing guitars and echoing, wailing distortions.
In the paired visuals, a woman drives down a lost highway at night, under the influence of dislocated vision and detached emotions to sync with the content of the soundtrack. Repetitive and jarring movements bring forth an almost violent sense of mind-body disconnection, as if being pulled around like a puppet with invisible, robotic strings. “Your puppet toy is broken. You don’t have a clue.”
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