Hip Video Promo Gives The Contrast a Write Up

• 26.06.2007
• Posted by Marc A. Price
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Hip Video Promo have published The Contrast a nice write up to promote the “My Peace of Mind” video. What follows is an excerpt…

Every Contrast recording strongly indicates how powerful a force this quartet is in concert, and “My Peace Of Mind” is no exception. A performance clip is really the only proper match for a song that sounds so live, and The Contrast have complied with some compelling footage of the group in action. But this is no dull representation of a Contrast show; instead, the band plays with color and light, and warps the space around them as they play. Shots are saturated with monochromatic illumination – but then a different hue will flash across the flame, or the image of a bandmember will warp or smear. There’s a feeling of destabilization that permeates the clip – a sense of psychological deterioration, peril, and the stealthy approach of madness. Masks, fireworks pinweels, bandages, old stock footage of airplanes, dust clouds and blur effects: they all serve to literalize Reid’s mental state, and make the encroaching darkness palpable for the audience.