Kevin Bronson on June 13th, 2016

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Andrew Lynch’s subversive electro-pop, undertaken as Nav/attack, is drenched in the neurosis that technology is fouling the circuitry of human beings rather than enhancing it. The singer-songwriter-producer’s self-directed new video for the song “Seconds For Minutes” — the first part of the sci-fi short film “TVN1” — deals with that in a familiar technophobic way. Starring Christina Offley as the device-obsessed Alice and featuring Los Angeles rapper G13, it ponders the very essence of “interaction.” On one hand, you can damn Alice for her preoccupations; on the other, she looks so … happy. Plus, there are those hashtag leggings.

The song is from Lynch’s second album as Nav/attack, “Errrors,” due July 8 via Dangerbird Records. The album uses his debut, which was released in October “as source material,” Lynch says, explaining that “I started altering it at the composition level, sometimes re-defining the mood and sometimes destroying the original idea.” Besides G13, the album features contributions from rapper ATKCMD and musician-actor Adam Goldberg (central in Nav/attack’s 2015 video for “Tear It”) and bears the construct of a mixtape, with instrumental interludes and spoken word. The song is available as an immediate download with a pre-order of the new album.

||| Watch: The video for “Seconds for Miutes”