Friday marked the release of 4AD band Methyl Ethel’s album, Oh Inhumane Spectacle, and to follow up, the band has shared their new video for ‘Twilight Driving’. Watch the haunting living shrine to the members of the band, in this grainy VHS-style stop motion.
Borne out of the remote fringes of Perth, Western Australia, linchpin Jake Webb started Methyl Ethel in 2013 as a way of getting his bedroom recordings out in the public domain. Like 4AD peers Grimes and Bradford Cox (Deerhunter, Atlas Sound), Oh Inhuman Spectacle was crafted in isolation where Webb wrote, played and recorded everything, with fellow Perth residents Thom Stewart (bass) and Chris Wright (drums) recruited to bring the songs to life on stage.
“A highly promising debut.” – Q
“Plays like a brain chemistry experiment gone horribly right.” – Rolling Stone
“Methyl Ethel makes dream-pop for insomniacs – shadowy, nocturnal music whose surface shimmer barely conceals the fidgety, restless soul lurking underneath.” – Pitchfork
