by Dan Goldin (@post_trash_)
For everyone that needs a temporary escape from this reality and a trip into another musical dimension altogether, Mezzanine Swimmers are here for you. The solo project of Mike Green (and half of Video Daughters), he has followed up 2018’s Black Cat In Heat with Kneelin’ on a Knife, released this past Friday, August 21st via Already Dead Tapes and Records (Sam Gas Can, Cop Funeral, Fuck Lungs). The experimental offering blends together no-wave manipulation, noise music, and steely post-punk into something often indefinable, most undeniably interesting and explorative.
Speaking about the recording, Green shared:
“Made before the Great Trash Fires of 2020, here is a batch of repetitious noise pop tunes that mirror some of the inner feelings of the times. These are sub-conscious rippers-- songs about the anxiety and confusion of mistaken identities and homes, that same anxiety in relation to authority, and ending with a protest song of sorts against the neverending appetite for power. With psychedelic beats and a guitar solo too!”
Green collaborated with renowned Brooklyn artist Preston Spurlock for the both the album’s art and the video for the EP’s first single, “Sexy Apology”. The video is weird, warped, and repetitive, which is to say that it fits the song perfectly. Blurring all lines, there’s a sense of humanity deep in there, but it’s been distorted, detached, and reshaped, coming together as something new, primal, and sonically deranged.