Los Angeles avant-garde/post-punk/synth punk trio Automatic have unleashed the video for their latest single “Turn Away“.
The song is taken from their sophomore album ‘Excess‘, released in June last year via Stones Throw Records. Get it here.
Commenting on the video, they say: “We got to work together with Ambar Navarro, our friend and director of the first music video off our album Excess, ‘New Beginning’. We have a lot of fun on set with Ambar because she gets our sense of humor and she visually adds some lightness to the heavier themes of our album, like climate change and income inequality. We become the capitalist death cult in this satirical animation of what could happen if we as a society continue on this path of excess.”
Watch the clip below.
Automatic 2023 Tour Dates
11 Jan – Melbourne, AU @ Northcote Social Club
12 Jan – Sydney, AU @ Sydney Festival
15 Jan – Auckland, NZ @ Whammy Bar
28 Jan – Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room (Ground Control Abortion Funds Benefit)
Automatic is the trio of Izzy Glaudini (synths, lead vocals), Lola Dompé (drums, vocals) and Halle Saxon (bass, vocals). Excess rides the imaginary edge where the ‘70s underground met the corporate culture of the ‘80s – or, as the band puts it, “That fleeting moment when what was once cool quickly turned and became mainstream, all for the sake of consumerism.”
