MSPaint, the Hattiesburg, Mississippi, synth-punk band, have introduced a brand new EP. No Separation arrives Could 23 through Convulse. Main the quartet’s return is the only “Angel,” which comes with a music video directed by Alex Thiel. Within the Matrix-coded clip, a suited-up Thiel stars as a enterprise man affected by controlling photographs as he turns into possessed by a hooded determine. Watch it beneath.
“Angel” is the primary new music from MSPaint in two years, following their 2023 debut album, Post-American. Whereas that breakout LP, which options Militarie Gun singer-guitarist Ian Shelton on the only “Delete It,” was produced by Shelton and Taylor Younger, No Separation as an alternative opted for Show Me the Body’s Julian Cashwan Pratt and Harlan Metal to document and produce the brand new EP.
“Most of our music is genuinely impressed by {our relationships} to one another,” defined synthesizer participant Nick Panella. “We carry collectively disparate musical philosophies and attempt to marry them and create our personal group that may settle for these variations and really thrive on account of them. Originality in the end isn’t about creating one thing new as a lot because it’s about navigating your individual inside world and the inside worlds of these immediately round you till you’ve realized one thing that hasn’t been realized earlier than.”
Examine MSPaint within the essay “Hardcore Expanded Its Boundaries in 2023—and the Scene Embraced It” and see the place their music “Delete It” landed in “The 100 Best Songs of 2023.”
