Weeping Icon have just released their self-titled debut via Fire Talk and Kanine Records, and the band have generated considerable excitement with the album’s early singles Ripe For Consumption and Like Envy.
Now, Weeping Icon have shared the final single from the record in the form of a short film entitled Control, which stitches together the album’s closing track and one of the seven instrumental noise tracks that stitches the record together. Control is a brooding and meditative tone piece that sees the band explore both the outer psych fringes of their sound and goth atmospherics that recall some of the wilder moments of Mask-era Bauhaus. Featuring rhythmic dance contributions from Brooklyn artist Cal Fish. Check out the short film via YouTube below.
Weeping Icon says about the track / video…
“With the song Control, the final song on our album, we wanted to create a tactile experience born from the subjects we explored throughout, a sort of musical epilogue that would take our animus and end it in a catharsis of mournful fury. The video opens with the lead-in track “perfect the art,” which alludes to the major working concept from our album – the exhausting, unsustainable drive to stay relevant in the modern world, and its largely unexamined foundations in egotism, selfishness and exploitation – and juxtaposes it against the truth of inevitable loss. The video stars Cal Fish, one of our favorite artists, who shared with us an emotionally moving, unrestrained physical performance. To us, their character represents the unlocking of true artistic potential. One day we’ll be gone, and we won’t be able to change the impression we’ve made on the world. The only real, lasting control we have is how we sculpt our shadows.”
Weeping Icon tracklisting
Stream via Soundcloud
Download via Dropbox
Pre-order: https://ffm.to/weepingicon
01. (drag me out)
02. Ankles
03. (you should listen to me)
04. Be Anti
05. (safe space)
06. Ripe for Consumption
07. (in the news)
08. Natural Selection
09. (suits)
10. Power Trip
11. (the way it is)
12. Like Envy
13. (perfect the art)
14. Control
