by Pat Pilch (@apg_gomets)
Rat Porridge’s noise is poetry. At times it’s graceful and clever, others harsh and disarming. Her music is deliberate but considerate, expressed with purpose and specificity. “Always hated the authorities ever since i was a kid,” reads the liner notes of 30-minute mindwarp FUCK THE AUTHORITIES. “Fuck the police fuck the military fuck everyone who thinks they should be in charge.”
Today, we’re thrilled to premiere the Cherry Nin-directed video for “nvr stills,” track two off Rat Porridge’s archival mixtape I Love the Earth, which came out earlier this year. According to Rat, the concept behind I Love the Earth “is that the Earth and nature are not just these pretty cordoned off things but embracing the totality that is life on Earth.”
The “nvr stills” video finds Rat waking in the woods and following the train tracks to civilization. She reaches a building, a cemetery, and the side of the road as the day passes, darkens, and degrades. Grainy CCTV footage flickers before the track’s moment of clarity, as Rat Porridge finds the rhythm in the noise.
Check out the Cherry Nin directed video “nvr stills” below: