Video Of The Day VEXATIONS
Vexations, the Edinburgh-based off-kilter Post Punk collective made of Rayhana Hashmi (vox/bass), Calum Piercy (guitar), David Stockwell (guitar) and Bradley Hillier-Smith (drums), celebrated the release of their 5-track debut EP, “A Dream Unearthly,” via Cruel Nature Records, with a joint EP launch with Shinlifter at Edinburgh’s The Wee Red Bar, and an Official Video by Joana Malagueira for “Armbreaker”.
Centered on sharp-edged and tumultuous progressions, swelling rip-roaring noise, and a sweeping barrage of unsettling tension, the band fuses scorching Noise Rock, hallucinatory Psychedelia and moody Post-punk with droney spoken words and unrestrained yells, to build something twisted, fierce, and cathartic.
“I care not for the passages of arms,
Or sovereignty over foreign soil,
I only want the love of those alive,
To soothe my flayed skin with the willow bark.”
Relentless, forceful and tumbling drum beats, along with anxious meandering bass throbs, instigate repetitive thorny guitar chords, heavy rounds of mist-strewing disruption, and jagged disconnected jolts, obsessively piercing and squealing with intensifying vigor, to radiate connective frequencies around restless, meaningful spoken words, rising into rampant screams to explore the waning memories of our ancestors.
“Each day for me is a year to endure,
Happy days are few.
Of the Thirty-three Heavens I see,
The highest is the Heaven of Parting Sorrow”
(“Mnemosyne” by Trumbull Stickney, 1874-1904)
The Official Video by Joana Malagueira shuffles vintage black and white clips with symbolic illustrated animations and transformative organic functions, to bring forth ideas about the lifestyles and culture of the past. A trippy, psychedelic layered eye feast cast in a vast gradient of lights and shadows syncs evocative imagery and thought-provoking messages with the charging momentum of the soundtrack.
Vexations‘ debut EP, “A Dream Unearthly,” is now available on Cassette & Digital via Cruel Nature Records.
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