yeule shares new video for their track ‘Friendly Machine’ ahead of the release of their new album Glitch Princess.
Watch the video below.
yeule has shared visuals for their latest offering from their upcoming album Glitch Princess, due 4th February 2022 via Bayonet Records. ‘Friendly Machine‘ is a pixelated, tonal journey anchored with light drums and yeule’s layered confessional vocalisations. The video sees yeule donning bright green hair in a pink-walled room dancing and contorting. These shots are spliced with uncanny imagery of artworks shredded and painted over. The visuals represent the illusion of safety through institutionalisation, the digital mask being a false idea of identity and preconceived notions of mental health and the way people should behave in societal functions.
Speaking on the genesis and meaning of ‘Friendly Machine’Â yeule shares, “The friendly machine is the illusion of immortality. You see a reflection of yourself through a digital portal, a distorted identity inside the machine. The real world becomes merely a medium for you to feed and sustain the enfleshed form that holds your spirit, then you are back inside, plugged in and held in the arms of the digital landscape. Connection to the body becomes more alienated, and the soothing promise of a false utopia disintegrates your mental balance. With split worlds and split bodies, the inferno of over stimulation makes it harder for you to exist in this material plane. We plunge deeper inside this friendly machine and ask for more poison. In exchange, we sacrifice balance, control and human touch. Deep enough inside the code, the power cuts. The dream is shattered. And as the pixels die one by one, a black screen reflects back at you how alone you really are without a friendly machine.”
yeule’s forthcoming project, Glitch Princess, opens a channel to the in-between spaces: error messages and broken computer code, what it is to be conceptually manifested and the curation of the aesthete. Glitch Princess is the undiluted excerpt of a downpour of emotions following Ćmiel’s experiences with sobriety – a redirection of chaotic energy into verse and the opportunity to confront their own vices. The aforementioned album includes ‘Eyes,’ debuted in a Sónar CCCB live performance video recorded at Somerset House Studios and ‘Don’t Be So Hard On Your Own Beauty,’ which The FADER described as “an ethereal, almost emo gem.” Glitch Princess also includes the four hour and forty-four minute long song ‘The Things They Did For Me Out Of Love‘ featuring Danny L Harle.
