WL//WH Video Of The Day GLASS CHAPEL
Gainesville, Florida based three-piece Glass Chapel, made of Jake Phillips (guitar, vocals), Angela Stizler (synth, bass), and Nick Phitides (guitar), returns with a video by Antoine “Mad Tony” Prat for “Edge of the Knife”, the fourth song lifted from last October’s self-produced and independently released eponymous debut studio album “Glass Chapel.”
Formed in 2022, the group crafts a vibrant and earnest Post-punk sound sharpened around the edges of Coldwave and Darkwave with distinctive emotionally ridden modern sensibilities, inspired by bands such as Joy Division, The Sound, The Cure, Cold Cave, Slowdive, and Asylum Party.
“Edge of the Knife”, lyrically, is a thought-provoking statement about how the lies, unfairness, and greed of an evil system traps an unknowingly manipulated society, “Can we stop it now or is too late?”
The Official Music Video by Antoine “Mad Tony” Prat uses dull black and white vision, symbolism, and shadows to bring forth the dark truth of the soundtrack. Flamingo shadows dance on the side of a drained pool where Glass Chapel, all dressed in minimal black attire, performs “Edge of the Knife” with serious simmering passion. A knife lies next to a sink under a strobe light. Then, the lone window of the mind/soul descends through subterranean levels while haunting echoes swirl and drone. This creates a cohesive picture of the fear, self-imprisonment, and spiritual death described in the lyrics.
Glass Chapel‘s debut self-titled album has just been released as a limited European cassette edition from the German independent label Summer Darling Tapes. Available for preorder now!
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