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The USA-based prolific darkwave/industrial artist Curse Mackey (Pigface, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult) has shared a video for "Smoking Tongues", the lead track from its recently released album Immoral Emporium.
"Smoking Tongues" is an industrial love song for the ages combining dance club appeal, sublime synth work and Mackey's perfectly on-point poetics magnified by a beautiful mix by album co-producer Chase Dobson (Rufus Du Sol, Tycho, Neon Cities). For the video production, Mackey teamed up with Austin, TX-based filmmaker Kyle Cooper of Jackalope Studio (Austin/LA).
"The music video for Curse Mackey's 'Smoking Tongues' is a neo-noir, fire and brimstone fueled, a surrealist short film that encompasses the past, present and future of Curse Mackey's music and art," says director Kyle Cooper. True to form, the video is indeed a strangely psychedelic, dustbowl psychodrama, filmed on location in Tarantula, Texas during the peak of the scorching 100-plus degree Texas summer of 2022.
Part ghost story, part noir nightmare, part love story, part religious allegory, the video sees Mackey at his most compelling, conjuring the hallucinatory experiences of life growing up in South Texas.
While the video smoulders, smokes, and erupts to a whip-cracking conclusion the song itself is a quintessential study in Mackey's artistry riding a razor-sharp line between synth-pop perfectionist and avant-garde, dark wave destructionist.
Curse Mackey says: "I wrote this song as the final piece of the new album. I wanted to speak to the listener directly, more than I may have done in the past. The phantasmagoria of my first album, Instant Exorcism may have shrouded my feelings but 'Smoking Tongues' opened a portal. I don't think I have felt this vulnerable within a song before and the sound is also reaching into new areas of exploration... The lyrical dialog is as much about me as it is about the listener, and I clearly question our collective future. I know this song is a departure that industrial music purists might find out of frame, but, if you stick with me, we'll get to the delicious delirium hidden within Immoral Emporium. I empathize with the feelings of alienation and loneliness. Our experiences, 'our scars like constellations' get us through these moments until we can again be seduced by the vast potential that exists in the world even on our darkest days".
Now, check out the "Smoking Tongues" video and find more info on the Immoral Emporium HERE. Link
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