Sydney band Making have a new album coming soon. Titled High Life, it’s actually been ready for a while but due to circumstances outside of the band’s control the record has been sitting on the backburner. But new Melbourne label Trait have moved it to the front burner and are readying to plate it up in September with a full range of garnishes and sambals.The band will follow the release with a full national tour. In the meantime to get your salivary glands working on some ballistic dimension with a new video that the band have made for “Come to Me” one of the tracks from the album.Created by the band’s friend Timothy D, who also produces excellent music as Horse MacGyver, the video takes you on some cosmic, surveillance state, private prison, “incident in aisle 4/platform 11” trip. Accompanied by the tracks ominous percussion and guitar work it will sure to leave you with mild agitation.We had a quick chat to Making’s Christopher Davies to find out more.Noisey: Video surveillance cameras play a big part of the video. Is there some statement about the surveillance state?
Christopher Davies: We gave Tim complete license to do whatever he wanted, but in talking about themes for the clip, modern paranoia was one of them. I think we've developed a particular brand of paranoia these days. Our experiences are increasingly mediated and abstracted. Our engagement with culture and other people is via the internet, and even our economy has transitioned from traditional industry to information-based. To this extent, to live is to internet; to record and consume. The clip is a reference to the surveillance state, but not in some Orwellian sense - it's more about our own self-surveillance and the paranoid need to document and upload all our experiences in order for them to be valid(ated).There is something ominous about surveillance footage. Show someone a 10-second snippet and they expect something bad to happen. Do you think we have become conditioned?
We all think everyone else is a piece of shit. Even aside from whether a person is depicted on surveillance cam footage, we probably either expect the worst of people or at least want to see them fuck up. I don't think we've been conditioned, I think we live up to our potential as terrible pretty well, technology just now allows us to save these moments of schadenfreude for posterity.'High Life' is due for release in September on Trait.Like this story? Like NOISEY on Facebook.
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Christopher Davies: We gave Tim complete license to do whatever he wanted, but in talking about themes for the clip, modern paranoia was one of them. I think we've developed a particular brand of paranoia these days. Our experiences are increasingly mediated and abstracted. Our engagement with culture and other people is via the internet, and even our economy has transitioned from traditional industry to information-based. To this extent, to live is to internet; to record and consume. The clip is a reference to the surveillance state, but not in some Orwellian sense - it's more about our own self-surveillance and the paranoid need to document and upload all our experiences in order for them to be valid(ated).There is something ominous about surveillance footage. Show someone a 10-second snippet and they expect something bad to happen. Do you think we have become conditioned?
We all think everyone else is a piece of shit. Even aside from whether a person is depicted on surveillance cam footage, we probably either expect the worst of people or at least want to see them fuck up. I don't think we've been conditioned, I think we live up to our potential as terrible pretty well, technology just now allows us to save these moments of schadenfreude for posterity.'High Life' is due for release in September on Trait.Like this story? Like NOISEY on Facebook.