Six months after the arrival of their debut LP Muscle Memory, South London trio DEMS return with the cinematic new clip for their latest single "Wake".
Brittle, skittering beats, wind chimes, and vocals stretched to their horizntal limits provide the soundtrack for the full widescreen experience, a brilliant clip that seems to reimagine Scorcese's Travis Bickle for 2015. Our taxi driver protagonist is driven mad not by his own delusion and insomnia, but by a deluge of customers symbolizing the downside of technology (with a steady side eye glare at your spam folder). On the world wide web, there is no Iris to save, and there is no evil so simplistic as Sentator Palpatine. You can drive all night; you'll never really get away.
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