NLight, the French Gothic Rock / Darkwave DIY project of songwriter, performer, and engineer frelu, returns with an Official Music Video deftly edited by his regular collaborator, singer, songwriter and visual artist MelEyes for “Black Outfit”, a song taken from last April’s debut album “Lux In Tenebris.”
The “Black Outfit” is a dystopic song about a person who is in mourning because of the profit-greed enslavement system that runs the world today.
The song builds a dire haunting realm driven by urgent rhythms and droning basslines, swept by an uncanny rush of distorted icy guitar wails and eerie glowing synth strains, to surround surreal, warped and delayed spoken word vocals with a thick and dizzying disconnection from emotional human needs.
The Official Music Video by MelEyes syncs iconic clips from Tony Scott’s 1983 cult vampire classic “The Hunger” with the pseudo-glamorous, emotionally starved predator condition expressed in the soundtrack. A strobing dance club in New York City, or perhaps London, is where the sophisticated cigarette-smoking, couture-clad couple of David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve go to lure, with black magic illusion, their unsuspecting victim to a violent slaughter. Vampires are a timeless archetype used to depict psychopaths because they only care about themselves and cause harm to others without guilt. This creates a Hell on Earth fueled by Charles Darwin’s unnatural social theory. For those who haven’t lost their soul and can still feel what it is like to be human, it is a constant struggle.
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