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‘ISOLATE' is a perspective piece moving through the motions of the pandemic.
Wrestling cabin fever, a sense of moral duty, restrictions to our way of life and social responsibility, ‘ISOLATE’ was initially formed by a single sample, captured from a local London authority vehicle patrolling a park during the first days of lockdown. This dystopian message alerted people via tannoy to "Stay home. You should only be here for exercise, if you are not then please go home.”
As with most in violet songs, ‘ISOLATE’ grew from a collection of loops and ideas, forming to bridge the gap between deep synth-based music akin to Berlin-techno and a heavy live guitar band. Murray explains; "We couldn’t dance anymore and I really felt that loss of community. I really wanted the song to cover a lot of ground, to feel relatable lyrically, to resonate the angst I saw people around me experiencing, but also for it to be a sort of love letter to techno and club culture which I was missing so badly. Creating this sweeping journey through the motions of dutiful isolation VS shared experience was really important.”
‘ISOLATE’ once again demonstrates in violet’s multidimensional and multilayered expression.
Armed this time with 8-bit synths and keys galore, drum machines and warped samples plus two live drummers, pummelling away behind that weighty hard techno backbone. A hefty wall of guitars rage with an electric fork-in-the-plug-socket crunch, meaty bass riffs and anthemic vocals pile up the intensity to blow your face clean off.
This latest single from Glasshouse is unveiled as an intense and immersive music video visualiser created by in violet bandmate Chad Murray. Assembled by combining footage of the audio stems run through oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers, phase scopes and wave meters alongside experimental, mind-melting AI motion graphics, this video is as gripping as it is dissociative.
It is a mangled collage of sorts; a pulsating circuit-bent Megadrive game cartridge on the brink of failing, an ever-climbing peak in a high-dose trip and unlike any lyric video you may have seen before. This one is not to be missed.
lyrics
I wish I could just see someone
I miss the sound of life, the buzz
Of friends when they meet to hold loved ones
To laugh, to dance, I miss it all
I start at the screen with dry eyeballs
Entombed inside these four tall walls
I dare to dream of a world beyond
This room, that screen, these same four walls
Let me out, I’m done, can’t stand no more
I’m sick of this isolation
Get me out I think then remember:
Though difficult and miserable I do it all to see the ones I love
Reality in computer when all I do is stay home
Society: an illusion; everyone alone
Entropy, dissolution, is all that we know
Solitary institution; everything undone
Reality in computer when all I do is stay home
Society: an illusion; everyone alone
Entropy, dissolution, is all that we know
Solitary institution; everything undone
credits
released May 6, 2022
Jake Murray - vocals, guitar, beat programming, synths, production, sound design, arrangement
Chad Murray - guitar, synths
Rory Dickinson - bass guitar
Ary Maudit - lead guitar
Chrisy Lopez - drums
Robbie Kuhn - drums
Produced, engineered and mixed by Jake Murray
Additional and assistant engineering by Ary Maudit and Max Blue Churchill
Mastered by Katie Tavini
Artwork by Ed Sprake
Born out of a London basement in 2010, in violet marries the experimental with the familiar. Morphing across disassosciative
landscapes, prisms and diffractions, the concept is one of momentum and exploration.
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