Carla dal Forno's "Fast Moving Cars" Is a Stoned Daydream of a Better World

Blackest Ever Black may be best known for the gnarled releases that underscore their bleak moniker—bombed-out techno, most notably—but over the course of their five-year existence, they've released a swath of records outside that realm too. They've issued the monochromatic ambience of Tropic of Cancer, Raspberry Bulbs' paper-shredder metal, and the humid beats of noise legend William Bennett's Cut Hands project, just to name a few.

As the label's branched out they've remained united in spirit. Whether blasting you with distorted guitars or warped vocal samples, this is all music meant to soundtrack malaise, the sort of stuff you'd put on when you're just going to stare at your ceiling for hours, incapable of doing much else.

Carla dal Forno has emerged today with a new single for the record label that puts a little bit of a wrinkle in that overwhelming depression, daring to dream of the world outside. "Fast Moving Cars," dal Forno's solo debut after playing in BEB's F ingers and TARCAR, generally trades in the muggy, stoned, off-kilter abstractions of the best work released on the label. But on the back of its delicately plodding bassline and lyrics advocating experiencing the outside ("To stay in one place I have no desire/The world's so much vaster") it's a fair bit more optimistic, full of life, hope, and possibility—a dazed dream of a better world than the one you're living in now.

Dal Forno will release "Fast Moving Cars" as a 7" (with another song called "Better Yet" on the flip) on April 29. Listen to "Fast Moving Cars" right here.