"yeah I feel, I feel like a hound in a blood storm..."
I suppose I could talk about FUTURE KULT's industrial punk darkly romantic "Hound in a Storm" without mentioning the Official video but why would I. The song and eerily beautiful dystopian vision realized by director Hardey Speight (Black Lab Films) combining wonderful choreography "as an overnight romance blossoms between two insectile, gas mask-clad dancers - Clara Rust and Iestyn James - in the abandoned, mid-pandemic streets of Cardiff" with editing decisions that push the dancers movements in glitchy ways as if time or space is folding in on itself. The result is sometimes creepy and sometimes exquisitely beautiful. It all depends how you look at it.
"Hound in a Storm" is the second single from FUTURE KULT (the creation of Cardiff, UK based film composer Sion Trefor and Berlin based musician/art producer Benjamin Zombori) from their eponymous debut album, due out February 25 on Action Wolf Records/AWAL. The track is hypnotic. I absolutely love the vocal aesthetic that holds tenderness in it's anxiety ridden intimate hush. The percussive beats with synthetic sounds that almost sound like faint Italian Taxis screaming and ascending lead guitar lines that might feel heavy metal in another song but feel elegantly art rock-ish here are so potently moving. By the time the song expands like an enormous balloon about to pop it feels like a deconstructed, caustic piece of Gospel.
“When we started working on this record, we became aware that the world has become too complex to be fully grasped,” notes Trefor and Zombori.“Surrounded by paranoia, tragedy, extreme tension and fractured hope, we wanted to create music that courses with everything we feel as humans living in the 2020s.”
“When we started working on this record, we became aware that the world has become too complex to be fully grasped,” notes Trefor and Zombori.“Surrounded by paranoia, tragedy, extreme tension and fractured hope, we wanted to create music that courses with everything we feel as humans living in the 2020s.”
I am loving this.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.instagram.com/futurekult/
https://open.spotify.com/track/2DSULoODUMOmeLCIDEKUMg
https://music.apple.com/us/album/hidalgo/1595659798?i=1595659804
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.instagram.com/futurekult/
https://open.spotify.com/track/2DSULoODUMOmeLCIDEKUMg
https://music.apple.com/us/album/hidalgo/1595659798?i=1595659804
https://www.zombori.net/futurekult
The initial spark of FUTURE KULT caught on in a remote river valley in Hidalgo, deep in the Mexican countryside. For three months in late 2020, film composer Sion Trefor and musician/art producer Benjamin Zombori left their respective lives in Cardiff and Berlin behind and set out to channel the music of the future. What they created, far off the grid, is the sound of everything, now.
Like a trip into a parallel musical universe, the nine tracks of FUTURE KULT are dark, mystical visions of a world coming undone. Unfolding in a mind-bending mass of mangled vocal chants, raw guitars, stark, whipping beats and driving harpsichords, the songs are thematically linked, describing a world in which we are all fighting a battle of retreat against overwhelming technological forces. Algorithms want your soul. They are taking over the world, shaping everything you hear and see.
The initial spark of FUTURE KULT caught on in a remote river valley in Hidalgo, deep in the Mexican countryside. For three months in late 2020, film composer Sion Trefor and musician/art producer Benjamin Zombori left their respective lives in Cardiff and Berlin behind and set out to channel the music of the future. What they created, far off the grid, is the sound of everything, now.
Like a trip into a parallel musical universe, the nine tracks of FUTURE KULT are dark, mystical visions of a world coming undone. Unfolding in a mind-bending mass of mangled vocal chants, raw guitars, stark, whipping beats and driving harpsichords, the songs are thematically linked, describing a world in which we are all fighting a battle of retreat against overwhelming technological forces. Algorithms want your soul. They are taking over the world, shaping everything you hear and see.
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FUTURE KULT, Psychedelic / Freak Folk, industrial punk, dystopian alt rock, "Hound in a Storm", musician/art producer Benjamin Zombori, film composer Sion Trefor, Cardiff, UK, Berlin,
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