Photo by Tanner Lemoine

“Here there’s not any plastic now / Past the slightest flick of my brother’s tongue / A snapshot of when the table melts / There’ll be nothing left to prop you up,” guitarist and vocalist Alex Kent’s bemoans beneath a collapse of electricity and frayed strings on “Privilege of Being”, the second preview from Sprain’s sophomore effort, The Lamb As Effigy or Three Hundred And Fifty XOXOXOS For A Spark Union With My Darling Divine. The world is melting, or in other areas, burning up. On this hottest month on global record, the latest complicated canvas from the Los Angeles experimental noise rock band becomes something of an accidental soundtrack to humanity destroying its earthly surroundings if you choose to look through it in its distorted, disfiguring sonic lens. “But no longer now / Do I pity you,” words Kent, at which point eventually the damaged is consumed by an ornate beauty of orchestral proportion. Nature eventually will heal itself, only by ridding it of us, its careless, entitled tiny parasites, first.

Directed by: Alex Kent

Sprain’s The Lamb As Effigy or Three Hundred And Fifty XOXOXOS For A Spark Union With My Darling Divine will be released September 1st on The Flenser.