{"id":37146,"date":"2021-07-17T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=37146"},"modified":"2021-07-10T15:25:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T19:25:14","slug":"teenage-sequence-releases-video-for-all-this-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=37146","title":{"rendered":"Teenage Sequence releases video for \u2018All This Art\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Independent Queer\/trans label\u00a0Get Better Records\u00a0and London-born, British South Asian multi-instrumentalist and songwriter\u00a0Teenage Sequence\u00a0have shared the music video for <em>All This Art<\/em>. The track turns a scathing eye on the small indignities and hypocrisies of a music industry that doesn\u2019t want to face its own racial shortcomings. Clocking in\u00a0at 6:29\u00a0of spoken word over a dance beat as bright, tart and cutting as the song\u2019s lyrics, <em>All This Art<\/em> disregards the rules of modern pop and alternative songwriting in favor of brutal honesty and bittersweet fun.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cMy thought process behind the video was \u2018what happens if nothing really happens for the whole song\u2019,<\/em>\u00a0said Teenage Sequence\u2019s\u00a0Dewan-Dean Soomary. \u201c<em>We live in a content-rich world; everyday we\u2019re exposed to countless artists trying to grab our attention as quickly as possible, and it often feels like everyone resorts to doing the same thing\u2014 which is usually the last thing that was popular for someone else. I decided to see what happens if you totally do the opposite of what everyone else seems to be doing.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>Watch the video clip for <em>All This Art<\/em> directed by Soomary and featuring\u00a0Mr. Winston\u00a0the dog via YouTube\u00a0below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WGmLuI6n_tA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Teenage Sequence tells acid-tongued and relatable stories about the humiliations and alienations of modern life: the casual racism of the music industry or your crush, the endless series of hangovers that keep you stuck as an eternal kid, the despair of living in a world on the verge of destruction, and the yearning when you fall in love despite all of this. Lush synthesizers, fuzzy guitars and relentless 909 beats build a soundscape that is as sleek, pulsing, merciless and irresistible as London itself, demanding that the listener dance even as it reminds them that the dancefloor is burning.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The London-born son of Indo-Mauritian immigrants,\u00a0Dewan-Dean Soomary\u00a0was 22-years-old old when he rose to success as a member of genre-warping leftist punk band the King Blues. His career with that band took him from sold-out UK tours and appearances at Reading, Leeds, and Glastonbury to international tours in Europe and Japan. He later won acclaim as a songwriter with Notting Hill Music and as the frontman of indie-pop group Bleach Blood. However, the work of supporting other people&#8217;s musical visions and a sense that, by his own admission, he was too apprehensive to stand up to stereotypes in the music industry left him feeling voiceless and discontented. As an outspoken social justice advocate who keenly felt the role of race in his life, and as an unlikely (which is to say &#8220;non-white&#8221;) but authentic guitar and synthesizer nerd, he struggled to find a space in which his passion for electronic music and his often-scathing lyrics could co-exist comfortably with the color of his skin.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now he returns with\u00a0Teenage Sequence, a new project that bulldozes the walls of stereotypical expectations to let in everybody who&#8217;d like to dance. Teenage Sequence&#8217;s infectious (but never innocent) beats blend the snappy pop sensibility of indie-disco with the bleak humor and biting social commentary of post-punk, creating a sound that&#8217;s all-at-once irresistibly nostalgic and, nervously, forward-looking. The analog sounds of vintage synths and guitars, played and recorded by Dewan at his home in East London, blend with live drums by James Gulliver, backing vocals by Kristin Ferebee (Beirut, Bishop Allen), and the work of co-producer Kevin Vanbergen (Nova Twins, Gramme, The Slits) at Savage Sound to create songs that are simultaneously about the lineage of music as a joyful shout by silenced voices and the loving technology that has allowed their voices to be heard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Independent Queer\/trans label\u00a0Get Better Records\u00a0and London-born, British South Asian multi-instrumentalist and songwriter\u00a0Teenage Sequence\u00a0have shared the music video for All This Art. 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