Mandy, Indiana producer and guitarist Scott Truthful has introduced the debut EP by Set Dressing, his new facet venture. I Can’t Be Alone Tonite comes out April 11 through Fire Talk. Ringing in that information is the one “Date Line,” which comes with a retrograded music video by Gretchen Krueger, that includes grainy 3D animations of toys, devices, and different colourful gadgets. Watch it beneath.
That is the second track Set Dressing has shared from I Can’t Be Alone Tonite, following final month’s “Class Valedictorian.” When discussing the “Date Line” video, Truthful emphasised the significance of Nineties toy sounds, liminal areas, and the movie Skinamarink as influences. “[Gretchen Krueger and I] felt that there was a darkish undercurrent to this monitor that was being masked by a sugary, day-glo coat of paint,” Truthful mentioned. “The track and visible discover how shiny plastic packaging can distract from extra sinister or dangerous intentions.”
Set Dressing is framed, in a press launch, as an nameless extension of Truthful’s noise-rock band, represented solely by an avatar. Signing to Hearth Speak continues Truthful’s relationship with the label, which additionally put out Mandy, Indiana’s 2023 debut full-length, I’ve Seen a Way.
Set Dressing will play a pair of UK exhibits within the coming months: a Manchester present, at P3 Annihilation Eve, on April 12, and one at Salford’s Sounds From the Other City Festival on Might 4.
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