Daiana Feuer on July 6th, 2015

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The video for “Living In The Snow” delivers an artsy extradimensional roller-coaster that should be looping on a public access channel somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle. The video, much like Mocky’s new album, “Key Change,” causes you to question the perception of sight, sound and technology. Are you hearing something made by one person in a cave with a midi keyboard or is that a real violin? Are you watching something made by a monkey with an old computer and VHS tape, or is this the handiwork of an expert using cutting edge video effects? It’s a fact that Dominic “Mocky” Salole once toured with nothing but a sampler and a rapping puppet, so we must expect the unexpected.

For his new album, “Key Change,” which came out June 30 on Heavy Sheet, Mocky utilized no samples. Every sound was created by a person on a real instrument. In his words, if “machines have become the arbiters of emotion,” then “Key Change” twists the standard on the present listener’s expectations. Real people, no robots. Guest appearances by the likes of Moses Sumney, Kelela, Feist, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and more pepper this intentionally paradoxical, futuristic yet non-electronic new release. Enjoy, people of tomorrow.

||| Watch: “Living In The Snow”

||| Live: Mocky performs at Lyric Theatre on July 17 for his record-release show.

||| Also: Watch the video for “Whistlin'”

Photo by Vice Cooler