Wet Dream are a trio from Portland, Oregon who make what they describe as “ethereal industrial” music, fusing the sound of a digital future with a romantically dreamy past. Back in August the band released their debut LP, Future Nostalgic, a record which saw them perfect their shimmering blend of dream pop, krautrock and minimal electronics, human songs for a post-human world.
Today, we have the pleasure of unveiling a music video for the album’s closing track, ‘Worried’. Directed by Travis Barron (Unlimited Time Only) with story by Benjamin Johnson and designed by frontwoman Sarah Kue, the whole thing is dream-like and strange, favoring strong imagery over linear narrative. Opening with the tidal lap of waves, the video finds a woman walking into the ocean at dawn, before moving to follow a gas mask-clad figure wandering dark halls. Thick curls of dry ice fill the scene, illuminated with projections of disembodied heads, unmooring the film from the shackles of realism and linearity. Indeed, as it advances, it becomes clear that the narrative is not advancing in a simple chronology at all, and that the fractured timeline may in fact be cyclical.
It’s the perfect accompaniment to the track, which opens in rich synths, before unwinding into a patient but wide-scope pop song, the dreamy vocals and throwback synth supported with an insistent beat and the background snarl of guitar. Like a lot of the songs on Future Nostalgic, it feels at once strange and familiar, a dream-like vision of a digitally-modulated past, the warm and organic romanticism juxtaposed with the cold and cruel logic of electronics, that binary streams of 1s and 0s. Check out the video below:
Worried_Master_8mm from Unlimited Time Only on Vimeo.
Future Nostalgic is out now and you can get it from the Wet Dream Bandcamp page.
