Almost a full year after the release of Matthew Dear’s monochromatic opus, Black City, the album’s swansong single, “Slowdance,” gets a video. San Diego filmaker Charles Bergquist was tasked with transforming the undulating piece of goth romanticism into a video. He received, basically, creative autonomy, and set about trying to decipher a track that is, in his words, “about the disruption of memory, at it’s visual core.” The result is a fluid, heady, almost voyeuristic collage of urban landscapes, visual … →

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