Twin Rains, the Toronto-based Dream Pop duo of musicians/producers Jay Merrow and Christine Stoesser (both formerly part of the band Make Me Young), drop a video by William Humphrey for their new single “Quick Sickness,” featuring Greg Smith on drums, their first since 2023’s stand-alone release ‘Laws of the Universe.”
The song came about after singer Christine Stoesser grappled with a thoroughly modern misery of her own making:
Saturated in passive internet consumption the song unfurls thick, hazy layers of blurry, meandering, melancholic synth melodies and vibrant, forlorn anxieties, to pour down on tight bouncy bass throbs and tumbling drum beats, whilst selfish, guilt-laden vocals, dreamily ache, within a physical, low vibrational bubble of cold tinkly echoes and fragmented glassy mists, before pounding the piano keyboard relentlessly with high-strung frustration.
Montreal video artist William Humphrey created the accompanying music video, which features faces staring into their computer screens and utilizes AI technology to warp their mouths into appearing to sing along with the song.
The black and white visuals show how people’s minds go inside the virtual world wide web while their bodies sit on a chair in various states of emotion, syncing seamlessly with the isolation, disconnection, and tragedy of the soundtrack.
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Photo by Phil Baljeu
