IMAGINARY PEOPLE’S brand of post-punk has the strange ability to teeter between a nightmarish vision of the world and pulsing club-ready beats; a fact that is no more evident than on their latest single ‘Snapshot’. Taken from their forthcoming album October Alice, due out in March 2017, it marks a darker, grittier approach towards their songwriting.
Drowned in reverb, the track gives us an inkling of what to expect from an album that is said to feature some of the band’s most personal material to date. Dylan Von Wagner distorted vocals with their distinctive vibrato sound haunted over an aggressive backdrop of thrashing guitars and percussion; rave-like electronics pervading the track to lend some ghoulish atmospherics. While relentlessly fast-paced in its progression, the darkness of the track stems from personal tragedy. Von Wagner explains the influences it: “I imagined my friend hunting down her killer; a little of Oliver Stone’s paranoia and Kubrick’s Clockwork Orange rolled into one.”
Check out the track below:
