The Soft Moon share new song ‘Monster’.
The project is spearheaded by Luis Vasquez, melding together barbed electronics with darkly enticing songwriting. Absorbing and addictive, The Soft Moon’s work opens out difficult questions, making demands of itself, and the listener.
New album ‘Exister’ is out on September 23rd via Sacred Bones Records, a transformative work that takes The Soft Moon to a heightened level.
Stripped from the LP, new song ‘Monster’ is a warped, engrossing work, with Luis Vasquez moving from plaintive electro-balladry through to something deeply distorted, and quietly unsettling.
Bryan M. Ferguson directs the vivid new visualiser, mirroring the disorienting sonics and producing something transformative in the process. The film maker comments…
“The song to me evokes a real sense of underlining ache. I knew immediately that the video should be a metamorphosis, a person’s body transforming into something hideous. It’s definitely a literal visual interpretation of what the song is about but I really wanted the transformation from one physical shape to the other to be slow, painful and almost organic.”
The in-depth work on the clip pushed the creative team to the limits, with the 12 hour shoot finding them building from the ground up. Conjuring something remarkable in the process, Ferguson continues…
“Everything in the video is done practically and in-camera (absolutely no post-production VFX were added later), all of the stages of the transformation are achieved using prosthetics and all the light leaks in the camera where achieved in-camera with unusual methods such as shining a small torch directly into a broken camera lens, manipulating a split diopter to give a ghostly otherworldly movement to the images and even using my own glasses to move across the lens which warped the images.”
“The four of us (myself, my DP, the actor and my SFX makeup artist) shot the video over 12 hours inside a walled off concrete room in my flat that used to be someone’s garage. I stripped down to nothing and lay down a green tinged shag carpet which proved to be an interesting contrast to the industrial room.”
“My DP and I also ended up going out and cutting numerous branches down from nearby trees so we could move our lights by hand through the tree branches/leaves to cast strange shadows across the performer’s skin as he contorted which gives the illusion that their body is moving around unusually from the inside.”
Tune in now.
Photo Credit: Matteo Nazzari
