Back in April, we wrote about I Was Trying To Get There But It Was Hard To See From The Balloon, a gloriously weird spilt album from Lewtrakimou and Henry Demos released by Fox Food Records. We described the former as “short and sweet and strange”, as if she had “gone foraging in cassette bargain bins and filled her wicker basket with fragments of lo-fi pop songs” to create “a bad dream in a demented toy box”. Well, today we’re delighted to unveil the first video from a forthcoming release from Lewtrakimou with Adam More, and delighted further to announce the song is every bit as odd and intriguing as her previous work.
The track and its video take normality and invert it into something unsettling, using everyday sounds as a trojan horse for the weirdness to worm into your eyes ears. The song features gentle vocals which loop and overlap, mixing with the unnervingly simple instrumentation to create something almost sinister, like the sounds a malevolent entity might make to attract kids to its shadowy home. This segues into minimalist electronica around the halfway mark, switching with the imperfect logic of a half-remembered dream.
The video follows a similar method, with Lewtrakimou riding her bike through a world undeniably ours and yet obviously not, resulting in a viewing experience akin to watching the opening to Eerie, Indiana on some kind of medication. Not once is this careful arrangement broken by something outwardly extraordinary, the cycling and walking and note-taking done from beneath a veneer of indifference, as if things are exactly as they are meant to be. The result is something interestingly apt for the modern age, living out lives surrounded by the surprising and bizarre yet slogging through straight faced, as if we don’t have any other choice.
Fascinating Everything will be released on the 4th August via Obsolete Media Objects. You can pre-order it now from Bandcamp.