Black Marble is readying his Fast Idol LP for release this week on September 22nd via Sacred Bones. Today Chris Stewart follows up his Alana-Marie French-directed lyric video for “Ceiling” with a new visual offering for the track “Preoccupation” by the mixed-media collective Crack Cloud. Stewart explains that the track is about “a kind of revolutionary spirit,” but he adds that it is threaded through by a “back to nature post-apocalyptic motif.” This “reclamation by nature over the state” leaves the song’s protagonists asking, “What is on the way?”
It is precisely that lyrical question that grabbed the attention of Crack Cloud as it resonated with the ambiguity of the times. However, the collective offers, “…from the perspective of an artist, such uncertainty goes hand-in-hand with the territory.” Contemplating their creative process as a group led Crack Cloud to realize that art creates a “…common ground or language to unite us. A sense of community and playfulness in all of life’s volatility.” Seeking to express that spirit while acknowledging the messiness of their own process has led to “Preoccupation”‘s incredible “meta” video inside of a video.
