Greece’s Mechanimal (Giannis Papaioanou, Freddie Faulkenberry) shared the video for Red Mirror, which is the B-side of their new EP, ‘White Flag Single’.
Giannis P. – “The video for Red Mirror was shot and directed by John Karabelas. We all admire the way images and video can be bitcrushed and pixelated and kinetic, so they turn more to some abstract painting than encoding errors. We love this kind of glitched-out aestheticism that actually has roots in net art movement of the early aughts. It’s all about hacking, cloning and copying our own stuff, when questions about rights and authenticity really become issues.”
Freddie F. – “Red Mirror is a hymn to reconstruction, rebirth, and all that comes hand in hand with that, destruction, erasing and rebuilding. It’s about decline, but not necessarily with a negative outcome.”
Watch the video clip via YouTube below.
With the ‘White Flag Single’,, which prepares the release of their fourth album, Mechanimal are closing the loop of a revealing journey that began with the industrial dystopian landscapes of their first homonymous album back in 2012, entered a post-punk electro track with Secret Science in 2014 and boldly delivered to Delta Pi Delta’s flawed crack in 2016.
The two new songs of ‘White Flag Single’, don’t raise the white flag that states an unconditional surrender but the one that sets the end of all personal, social, secular warfare of the past. In Easy Dead, the world’s innocent history is written from the outset – as a warning for the future, and in Red Mirror the only force for survival is revealed: the one that takes the form of a redemptive disaster with the sole purpose of starting everything from scratch.
The artwork for the single is based on an idea by Angelica Vrettou. The video of Easy Dead is directed by Christos Sarris. The video of Red Mirror is directed by John Karabelas.
Mechanimal
‘White Flag Single’
[Inner Ear Records]
Format: Limited white 7″ vinyl and digital single
Purchase on: BandCamp, InnerEar
Tracklist
1. Easy Dead
2. Red Mirror
