Following the announcement of his fourth album ‘Dark Days + Canapés’, due to launch on August 18th, and the unveiling of the debut track ‘Immigrant Boogie’, Ghostpoet - Obaro Ejimiwe is pleased to announce details of a brand single, ‘Freakshow’, and its accompanying video.
Watch here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzF00zaK56I
Brooding post-punk guitar lines provide the menacing landscape for provocative lyrics that create one of many standout moments on the album.
The video is the second in a dystopian series directed by Zhang + Knight. It depicts a nightmarish pre-apocalyptic world, in which pleasure seekers and average humans alike search for relief from their synthetic reality.
Shot between China and the UK, the film is another uncomfortably familiar vision of the future, following in the footsteps of the debut single Immigrant Boogie.
Both films exist in a world that feels outrageously inhumane and yet somehow familiar.
Explaining his thoughts around the origins of the track Ejimiwe says:
“Freakshow is a kind of commentary on modern consumerism - it sums up my general sense of unease in the way we buy our emotions these days, and the unstoppable cash-driven churn we seem to be caught up in as a society.”
Dark Days + Canapés is released though Play It Again Sam and available digitally, and on ltd vinyl, vinyl and CD on 18th August.