Maybe it’s because I’ve been rereading Grant Morrison’s The Invisibles, or maybe it’s all the red pills I took last night. But I haven’t been able to stop watching the video for Laboratory Noise’s "You Created a Storm."
The septet is currently in its rural Bradford studio finishing up its debut full-length When Sound Generates Light, which you will see is an apt title if you screen the video above. From demonic nurses and power-suited victims to gas masks, vertiginous action and underwater retreats, Jon Yeo’s visual phantasmagoria is simply addictive.
And the sounds make the scene: Thunderous drums, bleating Korgs, rumbling riffs and reel-to-reels the size of Darth Vader create a cacophony perfectly built for the post-Matrix era. I haven’t had this much fun watching a video since Radiohead’s laser-brained "House of Cards."
Laboratory Noise‘s debut should be out by the end of the year. Just in time for the shoegaze rerun.
