INTRODUCING: Readable Graffiti

Melbourne three-piece, Readable Graffiti, have been quiet as of late in terms of new material, since dropping their 2012 EP Male Mood Swings – although news has it they’ve recently recorded a bunch of demos, so stay tuned.

The electro-rock outfit have now officially released a new single, ‘Tokyo Speed Thrills’, from the EP, accompanied by mind-bending surreal video featuring sliced up eyeballs and ants crawling out of a man’s palm. Sound familiar?

Well, they’ve taken snippets from the 1929 silent film, ‘Un Chien Andalou’ written by none other than the surrealist king himself, Mr Salvador Dali (alongside co-writer and director Luis Bruñel), the Melbourne trio have done them the honour of providing an equally obscure soundtrack (gritty-guitars, casio-tone disco beats and all). The idea of combining the two seems incongruous, but instead you get a big phat bizzaro-slap in the face. Marvelous.

Their driving riffs and furious disco beats makes for an adrenalin-rushing experience (along with the sweat-inducing cinema noir courtesy of Mr Dali). Hear more of their twitchy grunge-electronica on their Bandcamp page.

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