I often wondered what Gary Numan was up to. He pops up here in a very unusual video, singing with New York experimentalist band The Battles. And what is he singing about? – yeah, Machines. Some things don’t change.
This song ‘My Machines’ is from The Battles’ latest CD – Gloss Drop. Check a glowing (but very strange) review of it here. Meanwhile a father, laden down with the shopping, runs after his child and falls helplessly down an escalator. Battles and Numan perform around him, which, under the unfortunate circumstances, is the least they could do. The child never appears again…
“Music videos from the band Battles always seem to be an exercise in performance art–previous videos have placed the musicians inside a mirrored cube (for “Atlas”) and surrounded by Lightning Field-esque LED lights (for “Tonto”), a collaboration with United Visual Artists. For the band’s new single, “My Machines,” they enlisted the director duo Daniels to create a video around a theater-of-the-absurd concept. The solution? A guy who falls down an escalator for the duration of the song.”