Earlier this year, Los Angeles producer/visual artist Shlohmo released Bad Vibes, an utterly inventive aural experience that thrusts sparse, yet gleaming electronic beets hovering over fizzling snippets of ambient noise. One of the album’s highlights, Trapped in a Burning House, fills a claustrophic space with dreadful, cacophonous drone and a slowly precipitating guitar squall. The track’s promotional video is just as tenebrous – it follows what seems like a man dragging his vicim streched across a dark woodland, littered with quick-second editing techniques to give us some background about the person in question to better understand his fate. Since its concept is elusive, for better lack of the term, it’s best to open your imagination and let the bleak, subject-matter transfix you into an unsettling place.
Shlohmo – Trapped In A Burning House (Official Video) from Shlohmo.