Now I’m screaming loud so I can fly away
There comes a point when the screen begins to feel less like a tool than a barrier — a black membrane standing between the body and the world outside. Mazarine’s new single “EyeSpeak2U” springs from that moment of restless recognition, channeling the urge to put the phone down, break routine, and feel fully alive again into a rush of washed guitars, clicking drums, and vocals poised between cool detachment and mounting unrest.
This latest track from the Los Angeles outfit finds Angie Kang and Derrick Perry, now joined by guitarist Eddie Diaz, sharpening their collision of shoegaze vapor, post-punk tension, experimental pop, and no wave abstraction into something brisker and more confrontational. According to the band, “EyeSpeak2U” is a fast-paced, emotionally volatile single about breaking out of confinement and clawing toward some kind of resolution, accompanied by a self-produced video that mirrors that pressure through fragmented performance and analog disorientation.
The song opens with a chiming guitar drone, a bouncy, detached bassline, distant strums, and clipped percussion that recall the snap and sway of late 80s and early 90s alternative underground. Then comes the saxophone, a sly, off-kilter presence that cuts through the track with a hint of downtown nowave mischief, nodding toward James Chance while the band’s broader frame stretches from dreampop to post-punk and beyond. Above it all, Angie Kang’s voice drifts in with a cool ache, airy yet urgent, carrying the melody with a glancing emotional pressure. As the final third of the track begins, the song briefly shifts into a more suspended, sighing section, where the guitars settle into a slow, metallic din and the saxophone flutters overhead like a siren echoing through fog, only for the song to quickly pick up speed again.
Lyrically, “EyeSpeak2U” feels like a restless push against routine and the numb, mediated habits that keep real life at a distance. “Put your phone away” lands less as a throwaway line than a small act of revolt, while “been awhile since I’ve lived” gives the song its emotional center: the sense of someone waking up to how long they have been sleepwalking through the feed, the screen, the same stale cycle. The repeated desire to “fly away” and “make it out of here” turns that frustration into motion, reaching not just for escape, but for contact, air, movement, and the jolt of feeling fully present again.
The video gives that instability a vivid visual grammar, cutting between a bare white performance space and a second plane of stacked CRT televisions glowing in violet and blue. In the studio scenes, the trio plays beneath hard light amid amps, cables, pedalboards, and the plain clutter of a live setup. Elsewhere, the monitors multiply the band into ghosted, grainy apparitions, flashing close-ups of eyes and mouths that make looking feel intimate and invasive at once. Neon triangle graphics tunnel inward behind Angie Kang as she sings, while the band’s name pulses across screens like a station ID from a half-remembered cable channel.
That interplay between clean performance footage and degraded analog image gives the clip its pulse. One moment, Kang stands center frame, bass in hand, flanked by Derrick Perry and Eddie Diaz in motion; the next, the image slips into smeared close-ups, blurred silhouettes, monitor reflections, and enlarged facial fragments that make the band seem caught inside their own transmission. Rather than leaning on retro fetish, Mazarine uses old television textures to suggest feeling filtered through machines — identity duplicated, desire delayed, and escape never quite cleanly won. Purple wash gives way to stark white light, fingers on guitar and bass are set against vast emptiness, and performers become signals, all reinforcing the band’s gift for contrast: intimacy and distance, clarity and distortion, gaze and release.
Watch the video for “EyeSpeak2U” below:
Based in Los Angeles, Mazarine began in early 2024 as a remote collaboration between Perry and Kang before widening its palette beyond shoegaze and dreampop to include trip-hop, grunge, post-punk, and no wave. Perry, a Virginia-born filmmaker and former DJ with roots in guitar bands and sample-based production, reconnects here with the rawer edges of his record-collection instincts, while Kang brings experience from the Austin noisy math-rock outfit Future Death. The addition of Eddie Diaz this year adds another layer of muscle and color to the group’s sound.
“EyeSpeak2U” arrives now ahead of the four-track EP Dress Rehearsal, due May 8.
Listen to “EyeSpeak2U” via streaming here.
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