I can’t tell what’s in your heart tonight
Bathing in the moonlight
I am tethered to this shoreline
It will never be the same
A label compilation, a Discman, and a dwindling supply of batteries could constitute an entire musical education. Metropolis, Wax Trax!, and Cleopatra introduced listeners to songs that made anxiety move with purpose, sending them back to the liner notes for their next discovery. For Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s Seances, those compilations were formative listening. A new collaboration brings one of those early connections into the present.
Assemblage 23 has remixed Fade, Seances’ first single, giving its post-punk unease a charge of electronic euphoria. The accompanying video, premiering here, comes from filmmaker Kyle Arpke, who sends the song through a succession of saturated colours and disorienting optical effects.
On Assemblage 23’s remix of Fade, Seances’ Eric Arsnow explains:
“Being able to work with Assemblage 23 on this remix of Fade was a dream come true. I burned through so many batteries on my Discman with their music as a soundtrack to my teenage life.”
Sighing synth pads open the track, giving way to buzzing electronics and Eric Arsnow’s urgent barito...