Sonic Cinema 24- Joseph Efi, Bad Colours, and Rival Consoles

Joseph Efi is a UK-based artist who artfully fuses electronic, dubstep, and experimental influences to create an innovative and experimental sound. ‘Walker’ is the latest example of Efi’s soulful creations and is based on the idea of a character whose spirit is traveling between different bodies as a shapeshifter looking for a home. The accompanying video features a fossil-like conglomeration of objects and stones set in a square piece of concrete—an assemblage of items that mirrors the artists’ merging of soundscapes. Around the block floats an amorphous orb that shifts shapes and hunts for a place to land.

Always With U is Bad Colours’ second album, releasing this November. ‘Maybe I Should Move to LA’ is a single from the upcoming album, where the artist merges his songwriting, producing, and djing to produce an upbeat and aspirational sound. The song’s music video features a couple on their way to go surfing on a beach in New York City, juxtaposed against lyrics about a dream of living the beachy LA lifestyle. Bad Colours is a London-born and Brooklyn-based artist whose first album PINK was released in 2021.

Rival Consoles’ latest single ‘Vision of Self’ explores the question of ‘what is the self?’ Understanding transformation, pain, love, relationships, nature, dreams, and more, the music and video are formed around existential questions about who we are, howe we dream, and how music can reflect this ambiguity and questioning in an abstract and symbolic manner. The animated, colorful music video incorporates animals, nature, and objects to depict phases of transformation, imagination, and dreamed-up visions. Rival Consoles is electronic artist Ryan Lee West, and the track features on his latest album Now Is, out now via Erased Tapes.