Rat & Co's Video for "Vocal Insanity" is Chill, Not Scary

When I was ten years old, I really liked scaring the shit out of myself. I saw The Ring in theaters and ended up sleeping with the lights on until I realized that a deteriorating chick with split ends crawling out of a television screen was both unrealistic and hilarious. What got me, specifically, was the video that kills you after seven days. It's essentially the creepiest video ever—black and white, full of shaky shots of horses, insects, and random objects in the woods backed by a ringing noise on loop. It's easy to make something scary, but its harder to make something unsettling into something beautiful.

Rat & Co's video for "Vocal Insanity" does just this. Essentially it's the deadly video from The Ring, but with a positive, ethereal twist that chills you out instead of killing you. The track drips ambient layers into a smooth slow jam that makes you want to take a long drive and zone out. If you're at all into Aphex Twin's "Window Licker," you will thoroughly approve of this. (Still one of the finest examples of brain-melting visuals and sound.)

Hailing from Melbourne, Rat & Co recently finished a tour with fellow Aussie electronic musician Chet Faker—who loved them so much he's asked them to join him again on his national jaunt around Australia this summer. (The quartet have also received approving head nods from the likes of Darkside and Gold Panda.)

"Vocal Insanity" is the first single from the band's forthcoming sophomore LP, Binary, slated for a June release.

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