We are honoured and delighted to Premiere the brand new
video from Lark for the new single Bleaching Out together with additional
videos from the recent album, The Last Woman (see review and stream here).
Made by artist and filmmaker Matthew Humphreys the video is simple yet startling
and allows the track further impact as a thumping, gnarling composition.
Said Humphreys: “Karl asked me
on one of our passing chats on Kingsland Road if I would like to make a Lark
video for him, it had been a while since I picked up a camera and shot
one. I remember running through the streets of Cardiff with Welsh rap act
Goldie Looking Chain. 'Bleaching Out' jumped out from Lark's new album
'The Last Woman', with its squelching beat and lyrics that talked about
bleaching out my love for you. In my artistic practice I deal with
technology and memory and I have been thinking about glitches in video data. I
had just edited Suedes new promo The Invisibles and I liked the simplicity of
one shot synced that rode the whole song, so I took that approach. I shot him
in a dark room using an old night vision camera and threw a whole load of
glitching effects in post-production, trying to bleach and glitch out the image.”
Acclaimed by both critics and fellow musicians alike, Lark
is an independent band and solo project founded by Karl Bielik, a nonconformist
and often idiosyncratic songwriter, frontman and artist. Carving a grimy,
gritty groove with heavy basslines, raucous sounds and turbulent lyricism, they
paint a volatile picture of the landscape they inhabit: romantic,
dissonant, feverish and alive.
The Last Woman stands to be one of our albums of the year from
the broody grunge of opener ‘Dowdy’ to the disturbed western guitars of
‘Underpass’ (“Here comes love, Rooting through the bins”), the industrial
machine soundscapes of ‘Bleaching Out’ (“I swapped the chair, For the noose”)
and the sad, haunting lullaby of ‘Nothing’ (“Nothing almost nothing, That we
have left behind”), ‘The Last Woman’ spans soft, harsh, tender, melancholy,
love, loss, age, humour and politics. Tracks such as ‘Nightclub’ (‘Station To
Station’ era Bowie) and the quasi industrial pop of ‘One Step’ (The Fall),
‘Broken’ (JJ Burnel) conjure dark memories of a musical heritage, but the
industrial feedback, sonorous declaration, low sung bass and warped shards
of noise and melody of ‘The Last Woman’ are all Bielik’s own.
Karl Bielik lives and works in London and is also an
abstract painter. His paintings have
been in numerous shows at home and abroad, including The John Moores
Painting Prize, The Royal Academy Summer Show, The Contemporary British
Painting Prize and The London Open. He is also the Founder and Director of
Terrace Gallery and Studios.
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