Extraterrestrial beings

Weird electro space-pop in the vein of Lemon Jelly, The Beta Band or Hot Chip, Scotland’s The Paraffins are resolutely independent. I mean literally – Billy Samson is the only member of The Paraffins, who gathers a host of extra players only when he records or plays live. Billy emailed me the debut video single for his song Cardboard Cutout (above), created by the multi talented Lachlann from one of my all-time favourite midi/electro spazz-core anti-pop duos, Gay Against You, a band that has one of the most exciting and down-right weird aethetics I have ever seen. Employing his love of technicolour, Windows ‘95-era primitive animation and weird, ancient mythological beings and beliefs, Lachlann has created a trippy masterpiece, embedded with colour and characters that will blow your mind. Admittedly slowing down the pace of his style to fit the slower, more ambient mood of The Paraffins’ more simplistic and moody music, the video (to me) sort of stems from brainwashing propaganda and Disney cartoons from the ’90s. I like it a whole lot.

Also, in proper Gay Against You-news, they have a new-ish song on their myspace called Sour Dudes, an inexplicably exciting segue into a prehistoric cyber-dominated domain filled with crazy bugs and spaceships and aliens (I’m guessing). Listening to hardcore/drone/experimental electro/free-spazz such as GVSY (don’t ask me why they call themselves that) will make you blabber uncontrollably like that, but hey, they’re that good.

The Paraffins – Cardboard Cutout: MP3
The Paraffins – Cardboard Cutout (alternate videos)
The Paraffins – Myspace
Gay Against You – Myspace

 

Posted by Sarah Gooding under Scotland