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Premiering today through Weirdo Zine: the video for my new single, “The City is Hungover.” Enjoy the self-mocking dance moves of a too-old-to-be-indie rocker as I make my way around New York City to the beats of this bleak satirical tune.

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Song Review: Teenage Sequence - “All This Art”

“I didn’t come here with one culture / I was born here and ostracised by two / I believe that people care, but this industry has painted itself into the corner of a white room,” exacts Teenage Sequence’s Dewan-Dean Soomary on “All This Art”, the London dance-punk artist’s debut single for Get Better Records. There’s a lot to unpack there, but so is every line on what’s definitely one of the year’s best burns on everyone. Let’s focus in on the obvious truth bomb Soomary drops which few gatekeepers want to admit: We exist among all this art and yet, culturally, we can’t seem to escape dishing out what’s safe.

Here’s looking at all those whitebread emo bands, publicist indie, and -- did I just read right that we’re now accepting a ska revival as well as reevaluating early 2000s adult contemporary pop-rock as what's good? While Soomary makes an example of Caucasian enthusiasm over Dischord DIY in particular, “All This Art’ and its commotional rant peppered across a disco-techno punk fusion that’s equal parts Art Brut as it is LCD Soundsystem should cause you to wonder why every scene seems to love the idea of diversity, but can’t seem to get out of its own way in committing to it -- or any new ideas made by unfamiliar faces for that matter. “So no matter your thoughts on this song, remember / The punchline's me but the joke's on you.” Turning the discourse into a dance song with edges so sharp, it’d be impossible to miss them may seem novel, but Soomary isn’t holding out.

All This Art by Teenage Sequence

Teenage Sequence’s “All This Art” single is available now on Get Better Records.

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Please view this fine video featuring the highest level of excitement achievable in indie disco London, plus a special appearance by the canine member of Teenage Sequence.

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It took us, like, 40 years to come to terms with the realization that “disco sucks” is a racist mantra, so it feels like in recent years we’ve been making up for lost time. The debut single from Teenage Sequence, though, makes LCD Soundsystem and DFA at large feel like a soft open, with Dewan-Dean Soomary elevating James Murphy’s stream-of-consciousness lyrics above irony, his blipping electronic beats beyond their simplistic charm, on the walloping six-and-a-half minute debut single “All This Art.” Finding a home on Get Better Records, you can imagine its dancefloor-friendliness is but one facet of the admittedly very dancefloor-friendly track.

“‘All This Art’ is as much about the systemic racism of the U.K. music industry as it is my own neurosis,” shares the London-born artist of South Asian heritage, “as serious about these subjects as it [is an attempt at being] humorous—in a sort of ‘if you don’t laugh, you’d stare blankly into the void wondering what’s the point’ way. I never intended for the first Teenage Sequence single to be six minutes and 23 seconds of the same beat (pop career suicide), but here we are!”

                     -     Flood Magazine