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Autre Ne Veut’s New Video Explores A Dystopian Corporate Office Mythology

Watch the bizarre, flirtatious video for “The Age of Transparency,” the title track from his forthcoming album

Brooklyn-based producer and vocalist Autre Ne Veut's new album next month, The Age of Transparency, has everyone excited. Following 2013's Anxiety, it's the second in a trilogy exploring "the difficulty of making personal connections in an impersonal time," according to the press release. Speaking to the title, Arthur Ashin—the project's mastermind—offers the following: "It's a term for the place we're in now, where truth and transparency are just ways to sell things and honesty is its own kind of performance… Transparency is an impossibility."

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After sharing the video for "World War Pt. II" last month, Autre Ne Veut is back with a visual the prog-y title track, "Age of Transparency," which finds Ashin haunting and flirting around in a modern workplace where everyone has turned to statues. Well, almost everyone: at one point the camera zooms in on a woman hiding under a table, and soon thereafter, our antihero finds her and turns her to stone, just like everyone else.

Director Allie Avital explained her and Ashin's thinking behind the video, saying that it was influenced by the record's cover art: "Over the course of the last few months, we developed this mythology of a dystopian office where the businesspeople have turned to marble, and this mischievous Puck-like character plays amongst them."

Check out the video above, and look out for the LP on Downtown Records October 2nd.