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Mark Leckey Has Made a Disquieting Music Video for Sheet Noise

The clip—for a song from an album about human “desperation in a post-nuclear world”—is just as uplifting as you’d expect.

By Adam Christopher Smith

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Capturing what it’s like to scroll endlessly while waiting for the nukes to drop, electronic musician Sheet Noise has delivered his own modern take on the atomic anxiety record.

The DJ and curator’s debut album, Shostakovich’s 5th Played Backwards in a Concrete Silo, is an eviscerating collage of ambient, jungle, and noise. Now, he’s teamed up with the British artist Mark Leckey, whose dark, eerie video for the track “Iron Lung Ballet” features robed figures crossing a desolate dreamscape and a little girl covered in snow—or is it nuclear ash?

Ideas of sampling and remixing have long lived at the heart of Leckey’s work, including his use of cut-up night-club footage in 1999’s Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore. He’s also made some pretty interesting music of his own, so the collaboration feels like a logical fit.

WATCH BELOW: Sheet Noise – “Iron Lung Ballet” [Directed by Mark Leckey]

“I’ve been a fan of Mark’s work since I first saw Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore back in the day, which was made out of found footage he repurposed and told a story with,” Sheet Noise said. “It has a real........

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