Wolf Parade by Astrid Lyre
Wolf Parade have premiered their video for Under Glass, taken from this year’s Thin Mind album.
“Under Glass is inspired by Canada’s greatest cultural export: David Cronenberg,” Dan Boeckne says. “The protagonist sits in isolation, their only joy in life is plugging in a bioport and interfacing with a psychedelic PS1 hellscape where they are loved and adored. Their body decays. They’re smiling.”
“We worked with Dan last year on some really cool videos for one of his other projects, and so naturally we jumped at the chance to jam with the Wolf Parade boys on this video for Under Glass,” co-directors Jonny Dunn and Caleb Bardgett add.
“We looked at Brian Yuzna’s SOCIETY and Cronenberg as spiritual references for the visuals, and theme-wise, the band wanted to tap into some end-of-times / isolation / addicted-to-screens stuff… This was mid-2019, preceding our eventual quarantine so it’s all more eerily-relevant now, seeing as how we’re all pretty alone and isolated, becoming very pale and more jacked-in.”
