Zany, theatrical, and irresistibly over-the-top, Selve’s “Loki Horror Image Present” is a daring, glittering fever dream – a post-punk spectacle of satire, self-discovery, and shameless pleasure that blurs the road between delusion and liberation, setting the stage for his or her genre-defying sophomore album ‘Breaking into Heaven.’
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Selve’s “Loki Horror Image Present” is a fever dream in neon technicolor – intelligent, catchy, and deliriously feel-good to the purpose of superb combustion.
The Gold Coast-based six-piece gentle the fuse and let the spectacle unfold: Guitars glow with sprightly ardour, the drums pulse with candy seduction, and the refrain harmonies are completely intoxicating. It’s camp, it’s new wave, it’s punk, it’s pop, it’s slightly bit post-everything – a theatrical joyride that’s as self-aware as it’s spectacular.
Effectively ever since I used to be
A little or no boy
I’ve had delusional goals
Working via my head
Now whose brilliant concept was it
Excessive up there
To go on forward and
Let all of them come true
A blinding mix of satire and sincerity, “Loki Horror Image Present” dances on the sting of delusion and self-discovery, channeling the euphoria and absurdity of chasing your goals right into a glittering post-punk efficiency. “With chasing goals, you will get too hooked up and lose sight of who you might be and what you’re doing, so I feel it’s vital to place outcomes out of your head to make good artwork,” Selve’s frontperson (and proud Jabirr Jabirr man) Loki Liddle tells Atwood Journal.
“However faux you’re anti success and also you’re most likely not being trustworthy with your self – however does self-awareness of being caught within the honey-trap make you not caught within the honey-trap?”
“The reply is not any,” Liddle continues “With this tune, I’m embracing the entire spectrum of id – from my deepest most insightful depths to a blatantly superficial aspect – with complete love and placing all of it out on show, hopefully giving others permission to do the identical. Punk could be radical, however so can absolute unadulterated and shameless pleasure.”
A seductive, euphoria radiates from each second of this observe, which Liddle calls “by far probably the most enjoyable tune” on their upcoming album.
Written in France throughout a lighter second whereas recording their forthcoming album Breaking into Heaven (out September 12th– and notably the primary full-length album recorded on the legendary Abbey Highway Studios by an Aboriginal artist), the tune pulls from inspirations like DEVO, Speaking Heads, Charli XCX, and the Rocky Horror Image Present, fusing campy cabaret with daring post-punk vitality. The lyrics flirt with delirium and grandeur, riffing on the absurdity of goals that come true: “I’m right here at Abbey Highway / Like a megalomaniac idiot… Subsequent factor I’m working for president of a universe close to you.”
You realize you’re taking part in with hearth
I’m telling you
I’m right here at Abbey Highway
Like a megalomaniac idiot
Subsequent factor I’m working for president
Of a universe close to you
With a military filled with spaceships
And a characteristic movie debut singing
I feel I won’t be alright
I feel I’d simply be alright…
However beneath the glitter lies a thread of stress – a wink and a wince all of sudden. That duality pulses via the accompanying video, a surreal, Eraserhead-inspired visible metaphor for psychological well being and id, co-directed by Liddle and Josh Tate. It’s absurd, it’s stylized, and it leans into discomfort simply sufficient to make the catharsis shine brighter.
“The ‘Loki Horror Image Present’ music video is an exploration of id, psychological well being and the hazards of getting misplaced within the sauce when chasing your goals,” Liddle explains. “This model of myself in a dying delusion of grandeur is a hyperbolic illustration of the elements of ourselves we’re prepared to sacrifice and compromise so as to pursue a imaginative and prescient of success. We wished to underpin the spectacle with slightly little bit of darkness to clarify that we’re not glorifying it, however investigating its absurdity. The gadget of the gunshot got here from this place – to distinction the lightness of the tune and create a way of unease – nevertheless it was vital for me to have the gunshot be off-camera, stylised and implied reasonably than proven in nice element, as depictions of gun violence are one thing that I do know require nice sensitivity.”
Effectively I appeared into the mirror
I used to be sat backstage
Like a cracked actor
In mephistopheles maze
You realize i’m feeling kinda bizarre
Im feeling sorta unusual
I really feel like Lou Reed
Smoking a giant cigarette
On the New York Metropolis Bridge
With a bagel or one thing
Possibly I ought to leap
Possibly I ought to fly
Just like the candy Frankfurter
Of this Rocky Horror Image
Taking part in rock n roll without end
Until they drag me out of heaven singing
I feel I won’t be alright
I feel I’d simply be alright…
“Loki Horror Image Present” is greater than a tune – it’s a permission slip to be every thing directly.
Bombastic and barefaced, theatrical and honest, it invitations us to snigger, to sing, to reckon, and to revel. An simple artist-to-watch, Selve aren’t simply performing; they’re liberating – they’re throwing open the curtains and letting all of it spill out. Keep tuned for the Gold Coast band’s sophomore album Breaking into Heaven, out September 12!
Effectively I really feel like Lou Reed
Smoking a giant cigarette
I’m right here in Madison Sq. Backyard
With my very own fighter jet
Chatting like a brat
To Charli xcx
Bout why the worldwide revolution
Hasn’t occurred but
That one had pizzazz
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