PolSky releases special audio visual collaboration for ‘Halcyon Daze’ with 3D video
28 October 2022
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Music-News.com is proud to host the exclusive world premiere of the 3D video for ‘Halcyon Daze’ by PolSky.
Anthemic Indie Dance merchants ‘PolSky’ recently released the second single from forthcoming album (2023 release TBA) ‘Halcyon Daze’ - an urgent upbeat banger, brim-full of nostalgic indie rhythm and impelling dancefloor beats, with countless blogs waxing lyrical on the innovation, technical delights, and pop sensibilities of the track.
The band have now announced a special collaboration with Film & TV composer Christopher Nicholas Bangs (Apple TV, Netflix) aka ‘CNB’ who has remixed Halcyon Daze into a futuristic electronic number, also enlisting the talents of Digital 3D Artists Nelly Kleijer and Zak Silver-Lennard in order to create an exceptional collaborative piece of Audio Visual art – a key manifesto of the band’s record label ‘Disruptive Element’.
CNB says of his remix: "The original version is such a banger; I initially wasn't quite sure what to do for a track that already has everything. It's obviously a song with a retro feel, so I thought, how about transforming it by bringing a modern sound. I also wanted to honour the dark chaos and melancholy by including some haunting 90s dance nostalgia and that's how I ended up mixing in some old school jungle/drum n bass sounds too."
Nelly Kleijer and Zak Silver-Lennard were the team behind the stunning 3D video design and visuals, who add; "This animation is a representation of our journey through the Halcyon Daze music video. A story about escaping within positive memories; a welcome break from harsh reality. We wanted to capture the bittersweet nature of spent freedom - travelling without responsibility through a vintage landscape before an inevitable return to the present day."
They continue; “We drew inspiration from classic anime & their megacity art & design like Akira, Metropolis, Ghosts In The Shell. Blade Runner (1982) city design for cinematographic purposes. We combined Japanese Retro-Futurist design and Soviet-era brutalist architecture echoing manufacturing districts in Georgia and Uzbekistan. You’ll also see inspo from 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick and Victor Moscoso’s iconic hallucinogenic posters of the 60s and 70s."
Sounding something like the unpredictable lovechild of Bloc Party and Duran Duran, the original Halcyon Daze track flits between 80’s Pop and Noughties Indie-Disco influences, reminiscent of Camden Town’s guitar-driven heyday and skinny-jeaned Holloway Road pub crawls. You can watch the original track here.
Taking inspiration from the lamenting pop of The Cure, the urgency of Bloc Party and melancholic languor of Bryan Ferry, Halcyon Daze as a song represents a truth and urgency which multiple generations can relate to. The single and respective album were written in response to recent turbulent years – a time when existential anxiety and the idea of death have been lurking uneasily in our peripheral thoughts, with the message that once we find ways to acknowledge and accept these fears, we can take back control and start to re-write our futures. PolSky mainlines fun time earnestness into rousing storytelling with multidimensional indie dance explosions. PolSky notes: “this song is an introspective romp forcing us to take a look into a future we’re heading towards, which is now.”
PolSky plan to release their debut LP - a collection of Indie, Pop, Rock sensibilities influenced by corporate zombies, elderly love affairs, brain function, mid-noughties video game addiction and the human obsession with shouting louder than everyone else, early next year -currently slated for Spring 2023.
