The comeback of experimental punk rockers Circle Pit continues to gather momentum, and the band have now dropped the official video clip for their single ‘Neon Idol’.
The tune comes from their recently released EP Wicked Wicked Time, which is choc-full of old, never-released songs the Sydney band wrote back in their early days. It was recorded while the band toured the USA in 2010 with help from Psychadelic Horseshit’s Matt Whitehurst.
Now back from an almost decade-long hiatus, Circle Pit began as the project of Angela Bermuda and Jack Mannix in 2007 (though their live show has typically been a six-person act).
Bermuda tells NME that the trippy-as clip for ‘Neon Idol’ has 18 layers of video, and is a hark back to when they recorded the music. The single is “trying to escape both their past and futures,” she says.
“Trying to give it everything but not give up. Trying to love a demonic situation. Trying to rock and entertain in spite of pain.”
Check out ‘Neon Idol’ by Circle Pit:
“After several years in the wilderness, wickedly wayward Circle Pit is back with a new-old EP… written in the early stages of the band’s career, encapsulating them at a reckless, destructive, enlivening and entertaining part of their existence,” said the band upon the release of the EP.
Wicked Wicked Time was the first release from Circle Pit since 2011’s dream-pop record ‘Slave/Honey 7” (Hardly Art).
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“I don’t think it would sound the way it does if it had been recorded in a different time and place,” Mannix tells Weirdo Wasteland of the record.
“The band was tighter than ever but this night we were also particularly loose, which is one of my favourite qualities in rock and roll music – that tension between stadium rock and blown-out experimentation.”
