Marbled Eye – “In the Static”

Photo by Jeremy Chiu

Post-punk and work culture have become something of unlikely colleagues when sharing space. Something about being stuck in an office and burning yourself out for a dollar inspires use of repetitive movements in jagged electricity as a means to survive those walls. With “In the Static”, the second single off Marbled Eyes’ sophomore effort, Read The Air, the two being within the same proximity for too long shows its disorienting effects on the human psyche. “The mask upon your face / You’ll never leave this place / Staring at the clock,” Chris Natividad reminds you every so often in a moment that circles right back around to the same place it started. Pedal effects spring on delirium, a feeling that your surroundings are a slow-motion prison while the mind races for an escape. “And when the hand comes down / There’s a difference between / What you want, and what you get.” After all that, logging off just means you get to restart the drill the very next day.

Directed by: Alex Petralia & David Flores 

Marbled Eye’s Read The Air will be released March 22nd on Summer Shade / Digital Regress.