Berlin-based Post Punk/New Wave quartet, The Maze Cab, founded by the multi-instrumentalist Gernot Pohle from the New Wave band The Wars, joined by Katharina Lange Reiber (vocals, key, trombone), Ralf Liebchen (bass, programming), and Tilman Berg (drums), returns with an Official Video, filmed by Titus Sass, for the title song of the three track EP, “Power Cut.”
A kinetic “Power Cut” provokes dashing drum patterns and quick bubbling low ends to desperately race under nervous synths that drone around the glistening echoes of ethereal guitar melodies, shifting from sad introspection to anxious need, to encapsulate harsh whispery dual male/female vocals, nourished by cathartic intervals of saturated, vibrant feminine breaths, through a steadfast interlude, left transcending into a celestial unification.
In the Official Video, filmed by Titus Sass at Otto-Lilienthal-Flugplatz, Stölln + FuerteVentura + Basement, a dreary green-grey tone sets the stage for Gernot Pohle and Katharina Lange Reiber to portray the struggle for connection expressed through the soundtrack. A man walks through a desolate wasteland while images of a multi-car crash pile-up replay. Then, he stands next to a transmission pole with an umbrella in his hand while a woman sings out from a dark underwater realm. Both are waiting to reconnect, but an array of frequencies inverts perception. Until the interlude, when a heartfelt persistence breaks through the barrier to allow a three-dimensional flow of cosmic imagery to take hold.
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