Video: Sextile, “Modern Weekend” / “Contortion”

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Sextile (Photo by Sarah Pardini)

Sextile, the L.A. post-punk outfit built around the duo of Melissa Scaduto and Brady Keehn, return today with a double-barreled blast of caustic glory.

The songs “Modern Weekend” and “Contortion” represent the band’s first new since 2018’s “3” EP. In the interim, founding member Eddie Wuebben departed Sextile and an ex-bandmate, Cameron Michel, rejoined. And Scaduto and Keehn went on hiatus to work on respective solo projects.

Sextile have wrapped both singles (released via Felte) into a new video, directed by Keehn, that follows a group of teenagers on some minor adventures, à la Smashing Pumpkins’ “1979” video. While “Modern Weekend” is a forgettable slab of industrial-strength apathy, “Contortion” finds Sextile returning to the EBM they do best. It’s an hypnotic song that insists you move and doesn’t care how, as long as you immerse yourself in it. It’s for nights, like in the video, that end with a bang.

||| Watch: The video for “Modern Weekend” / “Contortion”

||| Live: Sextile plays May 14-15 at the Cruel World Festival in Pasadena.

||| Previously: “Paradox,” “One of These,” “A Thousand Hands”