MSPaint, the Hattiesburg, Mississippi, synth-punk band, have introduced a brand new EP. No Separation arrives Could 23 by way of 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 under.
“Angel” is the primary new music from MSPaint in two years, following their 2023 debut album, Put up-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 Present Me the Physique’s Julian Cashwan Pratt and Harlan Metal to file 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 convey collectively disparate musical philosophies and attempt to marry them and create our personal neighborhood that may settle for these variations and really thrive because of them. Originality finally isn’t about creating one thing new as a lot because it’s about navigating your individual interior world and the interior worlds of these straight 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 tune “Delete It” landed in “The 100 Greatest Songs of 2023.”
