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: MYPET
Based: L.A.
Listen: ‘Bodysnatchers’
Similar To: Austra, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

When you step into the world of L.A. duo MYPET, you’re immediately aware how macabre they would have you believe. Their official website lures you into their last single, ‘Pays To Know’, released last year with Luv Luv Luv Records – a hypersensitive and lurid landscape, with Amy Kuney breathing “I’ve got you where I want you” over gloomy synths, which are complemented by images of the sublime. Such is the refrain of their chorus, and it’s the same foreboding presence that is continued with new single ‘Bodysnatcher’.

All the hallmarks of big-budget production are visible when you watch ‘Bodysnatcher’. The duo traverse a technicolour terrain, trapped by a dark and insistent beat that afflicts the track with a nightmarish rhythm. Their focus on the aesthetics of the sublime produces both moments of awe and moments of horror (all relating to your imagination, of course) and it’s this duality that makes their music so intriguing. At the video’s conclusion, the pair are consumed by a unidentifiable and alien object, continuing the imagery of entrapment that the venus fly traps in ‘Pays to Know’ provides.

Of course, hugely produced/styled videos don’t always guarantee success, but with their artistic principles, their slightly provocative demeanour and their highly compelling tracks, MYPET appear to be a recipe for global acclaim.