WL//WH Premiere The Black Veils
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The Black Veils, the Bolognese “Angry and Miserable Post Punk Music From Italy” made of Alessandro Criscitiello (AKA gregorsamsaestmort), Filippo Scalzo (Caron Dimonio) and Mario d’Anelli (European Ghost), builds anticipation for their fourth studio album, “Gaslight,” scheduled for release in the Autumn of 2025 via the French Independent label Icy Cold Records, with a DIY Official Video by Mario d’Anelli himself for the second single, “Have You Seen Bunny Lake?,” WL//WH is pleased to premiere.
The song clearly refers to Otto Preminger’s 1965 masterpiece “Bunny Lake Is Missing,” which in turn was based on Merriam Model’s novel. Another gaslighting story where Ann, a single mother, reports that her young daughter Bunny is missing. But there seems to be no evidence that Bunny ever existed in the first place, and people begin to mercilessly question her sanity.
Described by the band as a “sad and epic post-punk song”, as well as a“chant against gender-based violence — psychological and physical — and all the predatory behaviours rooted in exploiting unequal power relationships”
“Have You Seen Bunny Lake?,” is a definitely cathartic and, at the end, uplifting listening experience, that obstinately bounces away along nervous, sonorous, undulating bass throbs, charged by tight, punchy drum beats, with intense despairing rushes of icy synth swathes, alternating with prickly, sparkling ethereal guitar lines, to echo urgent, impassioned vocals, rising and falling between pain, sadness, foreboding, and finally triumph over tragedy.
The Official Video by guitarist Mario d’Anelli follows Clémence Ehkirch ‘in the role of the ambiguous and alienated protagonist’, as she urgently searches through the curious street art painted walkway of an apartment complex in the Northern suburbs of Bologna. Things get strange when she looks in a handheld mirror, which has been foreshadowed to break, and her vision starts to spin and become hazy. Then, old black and white photographs reveal a child lies at the heart of the mystery, and after a horrified scream, the viewer must inject their own insights into the open-ended enigma.
The Black Veils‘ forthcoming single, “Have You Seen Bunny Lake?” will be released this Friday, June 27th, via all the main digital sharing platforms.
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