Thug Entrancer will release his 2xLP Arcology next year on March 4th via Software. Today we checkout Ryan McRyhew‘s new video for his tracks “Curaga” and “Low Life“. McRyhew’s longtime friend and visual collaborator Milton Melvin Croissant III returns to do the honors here, providing sci-fi inspired visuals through his outstanding animations. The two artists collaborated closely to craft their other-worldy aesthetic, and Milton explains:
“What interests us the most in science fiction, or what we find makes the genre successful, is the ability to construct a new universe, culture, and environment. World-building is something we strive for individually in each of our creative practices. The ultimate goal of this collaboration is to use the music of Arcology as a framework to create a universe.”
Starkly monochromatic, but featuring gleaming whites and velvety crushed blacks, Milton’s animations for “Curaga / Low-Life”, indeed, create an alien microcosm floating light years away over a distant planet. And like his 2014 video for Thug Entrancer’s “Death After Life I” track, where endless cities and a giant skyscraper were toured through staggering CGI, these environments are seemingly devoid of life until the end. For instance, here, a giant Deathship floats somewhere in space as a camera slowly pans across it’s massive and imposing expanse, and while throughout the video not a creature stirs–alien or otherwise–the end reveals a single, humanoid head seemingly driving the craft from inside one of it’s phallic towers! Hmmm…
