“Slow Burn” (Blocktreat song) – Queen City Sounds and Art

Blocktreat1_crop — Blocktreat, photo courtesy the artist

The music video for Blocktreat’s “Slow Burn” allows the lo-fi experimental electro-post-punk song to convey the mixed and shifting feelings of a new relationship in words and the pulsing insistence of the anxiety of the early stages thereof. Is this right? What’s really going on? The sense of wandering in the dark landscape of uncertainty, the attractions and the surprises difficult to fully interpret like a dream sequence, like the dog walking in seemingly out of nowhere and the splashes of color to represent the memories that stay with us and the washed out, almost black and white, other visuals that stand in for the things we’d like to forget or which don’t seem as significant in the moment. It’s like a surreal, short, borderline supernatural horror short where the horror feared in the bottom of your heart never fully manifests but tugs at your psyche all the same along with the excitement and hopefulness, which Brandon Hoffman expresses well with the song that has a quality as raw and seemingly unrefined as the footage, as our experiences and memories themselves can be. The song is taken from Blocktreat’s latest album After Dark and after checking out the video you can further explore Blocktreat’s music through the links following.