The video for “Nun” is a collection of footage gathered from several surveillance monitors set to Earth. Director Hans Lo pieced together these captured images of Earth’s ecosystems, ranging from the macro to microscopic. Gathered from an unstable & unknown source, video that seems to have once been high-definition is fully degraded, lossy to the brink of digital noise.
“I wanted to create a mood piece which hopefully carries/reflects the same intrigue and intricate nature of their music. It was a fun process burrowing through the voids of stock footage abyss and sharing similar reference points with the guys,” Hans Lo adds about the collaboration with Teengirl Fantasy.
While students at Oberlin College, Nick Weiss and Logan Takahashi connected over a shared love of classic house and techno records that prompted them to make, “some kind of dance music that wasn’t just emulating what we were hearing.” The duo formed their music organically, improvising over loops that eventually materialized into full-fledged compositions. Rather than relying on triggering loops, or quantization, Teengirl Fantasy’s music has always been performed and composed live, resulting in a form of discourse between the band and their instruments. The result is a-typical for electronic dance music- colorful, maximalist textures and tones that move along with a driving rhythm yet still retain a distinctly human and emotional core.
In the fall of 2010, True Panther Sounds and Merok released Teengirl Fantasy’s debut LP, 7AM. Titled after the, “confused, dreamy, half-awake, half-asleep state that one experiences after staying up all night partying,” 7AM was critically praised for its creative use of samples and experimentation.
On their sophomore LP, Tracer, Teengirl Fantasy featured an array of vocalists including Panda Bear, Romanthony (of Daft Punk’s “One More Time” fame), Laurel Halo, and Kelela. Tracer touched on an array of genres such as techno, pop, R&B, and house.
Teengirl Fantasy’s Nun EP will be released digitally only on Nov. 25 in Europe and Nov. 26 in the US through This Is Music.
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