Los Angeles industrial trio Signal Bleach’s new music video “Rats Eating Rats” hits like a short circuit: glitchy, abrasive, and hypnotic. Each frame is drenched in rapid movements and chaotic colors, where digital dystopia meets analog artifacts. Visual layers of saturated friction expand over subliminal symbology to match their metallic dissonance.
Both the music and video cultivate elegant turbulence that is both unsettling and mesmerizing. The video leans into an organic DIY approach as it uses old TVs, lo-fi camerawork, handheld style, and TouchDesigner.
This visceral method adds authenticity by exaggerating footage with magnified tones and puppet-like caricatures.
While the futurism bleeds through dark overtones, each scene is entrenched in cyber-realistic details. However, hints of 90s hip-hop-style singing close-ups emerge. Bringing back an old-school notion to the narrative, singer Andrew Hall appears within a broken TV, as if an alternative broadcaster is about to deliver the news. Instead, he ignites his anti-authoritarian anthem declaring, “We don’t need you. It’s us versus them.”
Rats Eating Rats is a single from their recently released EP, CLASS TRADERS–a self-produced record. Electronic producer Casey Garcia concocts a perfect mixture of weighted low-end and sharp synthesis. The enormous sound of kick is simply heavy as fuck as as it lays down the foundation for Dave Teget’s bone-rattling bass. Each component carries an intentional brutality that pulls the aggression out of your fucking chest. And as the tones intensify the mood, Hall continuously reminds us of the irony of the allegory as he repeats, “IT’S RATS, EATING RATS, EATING RATS, EATING RATS.”
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