Photo by Aimee Church

Since emerging onto the Brooklyn underground rock scene with their promising 2019 debut album, Deepfake, Russian Baths have been exposing the light of truth lurking right beneath our surface. The revelations are stark and oft, provocative of the human psyche’s darkest secrets through Jess Ress and Luke Koz’ syphoning of heavy post-punk and post-hardcore particle matter pulled through a shoegaze vacuum. It can make our true realities all the more startling to reckon with. This leads to “Split”, the lead single from the band’s sophomore follow-up, Mirror, with it being a listen that causes one to question their own complicit role in sharing the very information we believe let on to be our secrets to know only. Koz’s voice travels through walls over currents of invisible signals in the air with Rees’ following his like a shadow. “Your secrets / I share them / With my network / Through wires / To trap you,” she sings. There’s a rhythm to the discomfort, and yet it’s one we’re inviting into our lives every time we log on and volunteer our real selves for virtual currency. The co-dependency syncs in waves.

Directed by: Aimee Church

Russian Bath’s Mirror will be released June 14th on Good Eye Records.