The Two-Pronged Approach to Thief's "Cinderland" (Video Debut)
It is immediately apparent that LA-based electronic rock band Thief are a bit outside of Invisible Oranges' purview. With synthesized textures and percussion, pseudo-pop sensibilities, and, most importantly, infectious melodies, this project challenges the metal scene from whence they came; mastermind Dylan Neal is a Botanist expat, and yet Thief's approach is completely unlike his previous act.
Thief's new single "Cinderland," from the upcoming album Bleed, Memory, can be dissected into two distinct pieces: 1) a driving, cinematic, and digital rock dissociation, and 2) doomed, synthetic plod. Starting off as a driving, captivating rock piece with unique beats, "Cinderland" suddenly explodes into something funereal, thick, and all-encompassing. In these two halves, Thief manifests as something different when compared to their Prophecy Productions labelmates, and "Cinderland," whose video (featured below) features terrifying visuals from the classic Onibaba film, is as exciting as it is memorable. Listen to "Cinderland" below.
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From the artist:
"Cinderland" is a moody, industrial dark electronic banger about finding strength and meaning in the rubble of a troubled past. Manipulated sacred chant samples run throughout the track which climaxes in a triumphantly heavy doom metal catharsis woven in between a Greek Orthodox sermon.
In this music video, edited from the 1964 Japanese horror film Onibaba, our subjects are struggling to survive in their own Cinderland. The scared child deeply knows the fear that speaks, “What if my caretaker can’t take care of themselves?” But this realm of the Cinderland is reached through the path of individuation where everything is destroyed and the truth that nothing is ever as bad as the mind makes it out to be is discovered.
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Bleed, Memory releases April 19th via Prophecy Productions.
