{"id":35938,"date":"2021-03-22T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=35938"},"modified":"2021-03-14T08:13:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T12:13:38","slug":"imaginary-people-share-new-single-renegade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=35938","title":{"rendered":"Imaginary People share new single \u2018Renegade\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New York City&#8217;s post-punk, art-rock ensemble Imaginary People return with an irreverent, amphetamine-fuelled\u00a0new track <em>Renegade<\/em>. The track is lifted from the band&#8217;s forthcoming album &#8216;Alibi&#8217; due later this year. You can watch the video clip via YouTube below. <\/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\/1pVPKUkQVRk?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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can also check it out here:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/3CF3mqG1e2WBsVJdGJDbyX?si=23HVEb0ZSLu_jDLw1wKgFw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/3CF3mqG1e2WBsVJdGJDbyX?si=23HVEb0ZSLu_jDLw1wKgFw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After beginning the campaign of their third LP in February 2020,\u00a0Imaginary\u00a0People\u00a0had to hit the pause button due to the Pandemic.\u00a0Now, the\u00a0band is starting back up with singles from their new album\u00a0\u2018Alibi\u2019\u00a0and are pleased to share <em>Renegade<\/em> lifted from the forthcoming release.<br><br>Any music worth its salt will reflect the times it\u2019s made in. It\u2019ll absorb the atmosphere of everything around it, hold up a mirror to what\u2019s happening in the lives of the\u00a0people\u00a0who made it and also the wider world outside. That\u2019s exactly what\u00a0\u2018Alibi\u2019\u00a0out in 2021 the third full-length from New York\u2019s\u00a0Imaginary\u00a0People, does. It is, as frontman Dylan Von Wagner, explains, a response to the cultural civil war that he sees unfolding all across the USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That cultural dystopia bristles through Alibi\u2019s 11 songs. Recorded by Phil Weinrobe (Nick Murphy, Pussy Riot, Stolen Jars) at Rivington 66 in the band\u2019s home of New York City, as well as upstate with Eli Crews at Spillway Sound in the Catskills, and mixed by Eli Crews (Tuneyards, Deerhoof, Xylouris White at Figure 8 in Brooklyn. This is an album that shimmers with a twisted beauty, which feeds off all of that disturbing substance and turns it into something both harrowing and beautiful.\u00a0<br><br>As such, the band \u2013 completed by Mark Roth (guitar), Justin Repasky (keys\/synth), Kolby Wade (drums), Bryan Percivall (bass\/synth), and with additional synth work by Grant Zubritsky \u2013 have not just perfectly captured the times in which this record was written, but have managed to turn the nightmare of the modern world into something truly exquisite, pitting emotional vulnerability against an almost resigned stoicism. Just listen to the way that Von Wagner\u2019s voice trembles on opener <em>It\u2019s Simple<\/em> \u2013 the tenderly mournful opener written minutes after the singer watched the gun massacre at Stoneman Douglas High School unfold on live television \u2013 or the tentative fragility and dark romanticism of <em>Bronx Girl<\/em>, which manages to still be hopeful in a world without hope. Elsewhere, the jittery <em>Neon Age<\/em> rails against a world in which\u00a0people\u00a0present a different version of their lives to society in order to impress them.\u00a0<br><br>\u201c<em>It\u2019s a giant shit on Instagram,\u201d<\/em> Von Wagner says matter-of-factly. <em>\u201cI have no problem with\u00a0people\u00a0using it, but everybody\u2019s just making up their life to be their own little movie, and I think it\u2019s making a lot of\u00a0people\u00a0mentally ill.\u201d<\/em><br><br>\u201c<em>It\u2019s about what happens when your town is replaced with something that seems to sway on the benign and it kind of leaves you with this dread,\u201d<\/em> explains Von Wagner. <em>\u201cIt\u2019s all spread out in this cookie cutter mold, and the town doesn\u2019t have its own personality \u2013 just another brush stroke on the bland canvas of suburbia.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"gmail-m_9143205206030414111gmail-m_-3907319355239317511gmail-m_-8008308468055059472gmail-m_-1141337209407689111m_8772156333156096462gmail-m_7695626371560251936gmail-m_-7160422964984998324docs-internal-guid-494140f4-7fff-319a-9fd3-d94d8f6a46ff\">While there are glimpses of light throughout the darkness that permeates every aspect of Alibi \u2013 one that captures the nature of what humanity has become \u2013 and while its songs do reflect the harsh, bleak reality of being alive \u2013 and of the coldness and meanness of the big city, especially when the world feels like it\u2019s collapsing \u2013 it also manages to exist on its own, and on its own terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"gmail-m_9143205206030414111gmail-m_-3907319355239317511gmail-m_-8008308468055059472gmail-m_-1141337209407689111m_8772156333156096462gmail-m_7695626371560251936gmail-m_-7160422964984998324docs-internal-guid-494140f4-7fff-319a-9fd3-d94d8f6a46ff\"><em>\u201cImaginary\u00a0People\u00a0are just in our own little world,\u201d<\/em> says Von Wagner. <em>\u201cI don\u2019t think we really participate, we live in New York and it was made here, but we just keep to ourselves. I don\u2019t know where this stuff comes from or why I feel this way and write this shit. I feel like it\u2019s a weird addiction that I can\u2019t shake, and I don\u2019t think any psychoanalysis is going to shed light on it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>New York City&#8217;s post-punk, art-rock ensemble Imaginary People return with an irreverent, amphetamine-fuelled\u00a0new track Renegade. 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