Asylums release new music video for ‘Platitudes’

ASYLUMS have released a new music video!

The new music video, for the track Platitudes, is taken from the band’s upcoming new album, Genetic Cabaret, which is scheduled to be released in July.

The new music video opens up the band’s private home video vault, travelling around the world, playing festivals, recording in the studio with Steve Albini, writing…….all the stuff they can’t do together right now and miss a hell of a lot due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

“It’s going to sound weird, but I initially wrote Platitudes using an old 808 drum machine and a synth, I was listening to loads of electronic film music at the time because I wanted a more angular and dystopian feel for Genetic Cabaret than our previous album Alien Human Emotions,” explains frontman Luke Branch. “By the time we started developing the track as a band this song was sped up to almost hysterical levels and the fuzz pedals came back out. Lyrically it’s certainly influenced by some of the empty political messaging that was going on in early 2019 but spliced together with some topics present in the David Cronenberg, J. G. Ballard and Stephen King work I was obsessing over during its incubation.”

Watch the official music video for Platitudes here: 

Genetic Cabaret is set for release on July 17th via Cool Thing Records.

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