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Viscula – Alien Milk
If you only knew how much I missed the MTV clips and the old TV that hung on the wall in my kitchen in the lush 90s. Now I sometimes look at the visualization of an entire generation from that distant past. Today I don't have a TV, thank God, I don't have those TV programs but I have a time machine that transports me to video moments of the past. YouTube is a great opportunity to watch new music. The new music videos of the new musicians are no less interesting so I was happy to watch a recent video from the London band Viscula.

Yes, sometimes stylized videos of modern musicians also have the power to connect our memories with modern realities. I will say correctly if I say that I felt deja vu from watching the music video 'Alien Milk' by Viscula. It seemed to me that I had already seen all this there, in MTV clips, watching 'Alien Milk' there on the couch with my friends Beavis and Bathhet. The atmosphere is the same.


 The clip begins with captions in the style of the 90s, alternating the logo with a description of the authors of the work. Douglas Chew is an intellectual from Malaysia who created a whole series called 'Eggimation' based on his main characters - a fairy-tale egg world, where we are all eggs. So in the video 'Alien Milk' the heroes of the plot line are also in the form of eggs. We see probably mom and son going to the fridge to drink milk. But the song has already begun to tell us that milk is not ordinary but someone else's. Then something has to happen. The music is without a doubt post-punk with an iron mathematical melody and a funk guitar in verses. Bass and drums rarely thump in unison, giving the song the appearance of a pulsating spring. In the chorus the guitars become alternative as in Jack White and the velvet Smith's vocals tell us that it is a cat drinking Alien Milk. And in the video we see a sequel in the form of turning the son of an egg into an alien monster chasing his mother. Of course, the little one still tried that elixir Alien Milk. Throughout the music video, we see an alternation of two visualizations - the animated work of Douglas Chew is moved by a concert video of the band Viscula from the legendary London club Hope&Anchor. Maybe this is what gives us the opportunity to switch from a fairy-tale world to the London musical underground. You can watch the video on the YouTube channel of the band Viscula.