Video premiere: TANGIENTS, ‘White Foam’

Kevin Bronson on April 27th, 2018

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The first single from L.A. duo TANGIENTS was inspired by no less than a near-death experience. “In 2012, I underwent something traumatic that forever changed me … My heart stopped and I was shocked back to life,” singer Chelsea Ray says. “The sparse, yet intense memories I have from this moment gave me a completely different perspective. After ‘coming back,’ I felt that I was only a fragment of the person I was before. Here I am a few years later, writing lyrics about it, and I feel lucky just to be here.”

“White Foam” — both the bleached-out video directed by Sarah Bitely featuring Ray and collaborator Be Hussey, as well as the song itself, a swirl of electronic post-punk haze — complete the powerful introduction to the duo.

Hussey is a multi-instrumentalist/producer who is a member of GUIDES and, for the past 10 years, bassist in L.A. indie-rock stalwarts Radar Bros. On “White Foam” he constructs layers of synth and effects that carry Ray’s fever-dream vocals. You can almost feel her, pulling her way back.

||| Watch: The video for “White Foam”