Never has that old saying “Everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about” been more precise and prevalent than right now. We’re all going through it, weaving a shared fight on the surface and a personal one away from the light, and our own break from the bleak is a solitary fight unique to our respective situation. Which makes MRCH’s new single “Escape The Dark” all the more appropriate for the modern day, applying not only out own definition of the darkness that surrounds us, but how we choose to emerge from it. The cinematic Phoenix duo and longtime V faves dropped the new tune earlier this week with a mysterious air pf provenance to it, augmented by a strobe-flicked visual, and it’s the lead offering a new EP titled Ashes arriving in March. “This video explores a surreal neon-lit world inspired by dream logic and analog nostalgia,” MRCH declare, “drawing from the cinematic atmosphere of David Lynch and the moody synth-pop lineage of artists like Ladytron and Cannons.” May it illuminate the path.
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