It doesn’t take a auditory scientist to hear why Kim Gordon wanted Sarah Register in the studio with her to record last year’s phenomenal The Collective and asked her to be a part of her live band. Formerly of Brooklyn art-punk duo Talk Normal, Register is a singular guitar eccentric kindred to Gordon’s rapport in bending and reshaping electricity out of its wave form. The Los Angeles-based musician’s debut single, “right”, hears her reintroducing herself to the experimental scene under her own spotlight of a droning static scourge presses into view through severed pulses and words spoken from a corrupt pitch-tune file. The listen’s asymmetry is made all the more meticulous in the way its details fall into place using a paint-without-numbers design of conflating noise and experimental pop on a splatter canvas embellished by god particle sound explorer Nick Sylvester (Yaeji, Channel Tres, YVETTE). Maybe all is not right in a world where the oddity of the human trapped inside of an electronic vessel feels all too relatable, but Register isn’t looking to create creature comforts with her art.

Directed by: Simon Cools Fierlafijn

Sarah Register’s “right” b/w “does it hurt” single is available now on Smartdumb.