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| "Fuck your comfort zone" |
It's with true pleasure and excitement that we give you the premiere for Muck's latest music video, and what will become the second streamable single of sorts, from the band's highly anticipated second full-length Your Joys Future. The album's street date is February 24th. and it'll see a LP, CD and digital release. Pre-order deals HERE.
It hasn't been that long since a video/single surfaced from the forthcoming Prosthetic Records release. That song was "My City" and a Halifax Collect scribe dug into the song and video (read/watch/listen) and had this, amongst other things, to say, "They're not run of the mill or standard in any way. They like to deviate, and they combine all sorts of influences to do a thing totally their own." Word. Orð.
"Provoke Me" bridges the gap, between the band's lauded debut LP Slaves (review), and Your Joys Future, perfectly. For my part I think this song will seamlessly brings fans of Slaves to Your Joys Future. And by the same token it will hopefully bring all the new fans' -- that the band has already enthralled after getting in bed with Prosthetic -- attention to the glorious bastard that is Slaves. That said, the progress that's been steadily climbing since years past until this day is as clear as it is gratual gradual in this song.
"Provoke Me" is instantly memorable, but don't be fooled. Muck hasn't rested on their laurels. Your Joys Future is a whirlwind of equal parts blinding fury and dedication to hardcore's and punk's dirty side and the love for the unconventional arts.
We talked to the band.
Why provoke me? Do you need a provocation or are you speaking for the masses, looking at you?
Ási: We're speaking globally. Lets continuously try to provoke our senses, our perception. It's so easy to get stuck. Get out of the box. Fuck your comfort zone.
Musically "Provoke Me" seems to bridge the gap from Slaves to the new one. Was this a conscious decision? It's a gradual transition musically I feel.
Ási (drums): Ok. No I don't think it was conscious decision. In our song-writing, nothing is really a conscious decision. I think the change in direction is a result of us maturing and growing as musicians rather than us deciding that "NOW WE'RE MAKING BLASTBEATS". Slaves as an album is something that captures our moment at the time it was written and recorded. It's not to be ignored or thought of as anything less than Your Joyous Future. It's different, different times.
Indriði (guitar/vocals): But of course we become "better" songwriters with every song we write, our newest song always feels like our best song to me. with Your Joyous Future I feel we have become better at directing and composing our ideas perhaps.
To me it feels like a good transition guys, I think "Provoke Me" ties the two albums together in a very natural unforced way.
Ási: Thank you Birkir. We agree. it has a lot of the qualities the of the slaves in a melodic sense and it is the first song of the new album, so that also makes sense.
So black and white is your visual gameplan these days? what with the videos and album cover...
Ási: Nah. I wouldn't say that but because of similar visuality and nature of editing in both videos they kind of became a series of documentation portraying the band in our natural habitat. "My City" (watch/listen) shows the band in a live setting at a venue we commonly play in Reykjavik. "Provoke Me" goes beyond that and is in our opinion more intimate. It's shot in our practice space where Your Joyous Future was written and recorded, it's the space where everything happens. When a video is in black and white, it strikes a person a bit differently than in colour, it is what movie directors use often to represent memories or the past. Something of a nostalgic nature. It takes out colours, but at the same time it adds a cloak of mystery.
How has the non-musical aspect of being in Muck changed since Prosthetic got on board?
Ási: It's exciting but not all that much different. Things move a bit faster and we've gotten more serious about the non-musical aspect. After getting Prosthetic on board I think we all kind of felt like we were at the beginning point of something new for the band. We feel like we have a great opportunity ahead of us and it's important to be on point and focused to fully embrace it and get there. We're in the grind and we want Muck to grow as much as possible.
That said, what's on the horizon shows, the tours, shit people can sign up for or spend their money on?
We're working with some awesome people about getting tours together. It's all in the making. We want to get on the road as soon as the album drops. We're playing Eistnaflug festival here in Iceland in July. We'll have a release show for Your Joyous Future in early March. Send us your money. We need it to pay Indriði's dentist. It's of most importance. Creation starts with dental health.
Watching the video it dawned on me that Indriði has the most striking facial feature. Can you cast more light and shadows on and from his cheek bones and defined nose?
Ási: We are working with a prominent make-up artist to ensure that Indriði will always look his best from now on.
- Birkir Fjalar
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