We love a good bit of thematic symmetry around these parts, and the latest chapter comes from Do Nothing, the English post-punk band outta Nottingham whose new single “Amoeba” feeds off the idea of idleness and just what happens to those susceptible to influence as they do, well… nothing. The slick, galloping track dropped a few weeks ago, but rises again to the content surface with word of Do Nothing’s forthcoming debut album Snake Sideways, out June 30.
“As far as I remember ‘Amoeba’ is about my girlfriend leaving the house to go to work and be useful, and me laying on the sofa feeling dumb and watching annoying news on TV,” says Do Nothing vocalist Chris Bailey. “It muses about how the media decides what we all care about on a two week rotation — sometimes it feels like we all get angry about something for a few weeks until the TV/internet decides it’s time for us to think about something else. It’s also about the fact that making music can often feel pretty unimportant; some folks are firefighters while I spend all my time massaging my own ego.”
“Amoeba” snakes its way into visual form via the official video, which finds Bailey wreaking havoc in an art class. It was directed and produced by Clump Creative, who had this to say about it: “When we first listened to ‘Amoeba’, we felt there was a spooky element to it — old horror movie monsters and prosthetics immediately came to mind. We liked the idea of taking a monster out of its natural habitat and dropping him into a world that he doesn’t quite understand. A lizard man crashing a life drawing class felt like the perfect fit.”
Do Nothing, do everything.
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