Fazer's new album 'Plex', will be released on 14th January 2022!
Watching the video for the new single by Fazer leaves you confused whether you should laugh or cry. The tune, a soothing swansong of sorts, not only for a year gone by, but for what feels like the end of an era, combined with the cringey stock footage of self-satisfied neo-liberal characters gesticulating, celebrating, then coming unravelled, creates an all to close-to-home feeling of discomfort. The cognitive dissonance masterfully crafted by the band and the director Johannes Brugger certainly doesn’t leave you untouched.
Fazer explained the idea: "December is both the best and the worst month of the year. We wanted to capture this ambivalence. The way the trumpet solo drops after two long minutes is our ‚In The Air Tonight‘ moment. The video arguably depicts that same sense of dichotomy in modern.