Xeno & Oaklander - "Poison" (Official Video)

"Poison" is the second single from Xeno & Oaklander's "Vi/deo"
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Xeno & Oaklander co-direct an Italo-disco inspired horror music video with long-time collaborator Scott Kiernan. A giallo short film of alluring abstract imagery and mystery.
East Coast minimal wave institution Xeno & Oaklander’s seventh full-length further distills their iconic noir synth pop into a streamlined suite of gleaming, graceful retrofuturism. Inspired by ideas of synesthesia, scent, star worship, and obsolescent technologies, the duo of Liz Wendelbo and Sean McBride began conceiving the blueprint of Vi/deo while sequestered at their Southern Connecticut home studio during the pandemic. The context of isolation, streaming, and remote dreaming seeped into their chemistry, manifesting as both homage to and meditation on a certain cinematic strain of technicolor fantasy: the screen as stage, distance disguised as intimacy, where tragedy and glamor crossfade into one.
Opening with the precision synthetic melancholy of “Infinite Sadness,” the album marks a peak fluidity between the pair’s fusion of analog electronics and poetic melody, both refined and oblique, classic but contemporary. Wendelbo modeled her singing on “a young boy in a choir,” alternately holding notes and whispering them, with the lyrics clear, the voice elevated. McBride’s synthesizers serve as the perfect counterpart, tiered and polished, threading fluorescent architectures of a lost audio-visual age. Theirs is a darkwave of reverie and flickering city lights, swooning and sleek, romantic anthems for concrete bohemia, cigarette smoke in rainy gardens, and sound as color (“blue is fast and red is slow”). Vi/deo captures the bittersweet beauty of youth and utopias, the wistful transformation from miracle to memory, where love turns unreal and music becomes myth: “Sounds of the underground / Will echo in future days / Feelings of misery / Will fade into the haze.”
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"Poison" lyrics:
Poison
Seductive illusion
Poison
Lethal emotion
Reverse the action
This medicine
Forget the remedy
Poison
Enticing obsession
Poison
Deadly devotion
Release the action
This discipline
Forgive the agony
Poison
Charming disillusion
Poison
Fatal sensation
Dreaming deathly seduction and
Waking deathly seduction

[@DaisRecords]

Poison me!!!!

[@MrKafrovich]

Avant-garde!

[@nyctphili9170]

I listened them live in London recently. Purchased "Poison" t-shirt and a 7" vinyl. Had a plrasant chat with always pleasant and so friendly Liz. I love the whole Vi/Deo album. 🖤

[@LeGamerInfini]

This Song And Video Are Awesome, thank you very much ✌👑

[@ImpendingRiot83]

The very giallo, Argento-y vibe to the video matches the Italo Disco sonic influence perfectly in a thematic way, this is so good.

[@VolcanoZX]

yes very suspiria, fantastic

[@josesierraromero8316]

I dont even know what style of music is this but OMG!!
and her voice...guau !! 😍

[@brevyansingollo1411]

These key modulations are so chilling

[@fndo]

One of the best videoclips of Xeno & Oaklander in my opinion.

[@Hugggykuggy]

The aesthetic of this video is superb. Truly seductive and definitely my new favourite music video. I'm so happy they made this

[@timothywillems8794]

The vibe of this track is on another level, when compared to their past work. Incredible

[@user-gk4bs3xl8n]

Woah so cool keep going !!!!

[@farrahpellegrind4986]

This is fantastic guys!!! I love it!!💞🌺💞🎶🎹🎹🎶
🐍🌹🌹🐍

[@jimmyk1370]

Hi Farrah-_- never been into your kind of music before but I'm starting to like all these different bands and stuff you like. Let me know if you want me to take you to see one.

[@offworldnetwork]

New sound for X & O ... so many influences here, I can hear the comparison folk are making to New Orders Round and Round and they are kinda correct, though I'm sure X & O wouldn't agree there. I'm hearing some 80's New York electro/freestyle influences, particularly the bass line and chord stabs. Of course, Liz's wonderful vocal takes it in a completely different direction.. chord progressions are always so unpredictable with X & O 😍outstanding.

[@mutanttransmissions]

beautiful work

[@TheFaster65]

Love this Tune sounds great on My Subs !!!!!

[@HavenMarket]

xeno you guys are on dais?

[@pazdiaz4719]

I'm absolutely in love with this.

[@ricardokool1]

just great

[@katherine_madeline2556]

Reminds me Chris & Cosey

[@saltodefe9107]

What a gorgeous song! I can't wait to hear this on the dancefloor!!!🖤💜🎶

[@rolandmarckwort]

Fantastic, as usual from the lovely duo💙💙

[@abismocarmesim]

my dream came true with xeno & oaklander and zanias posting new delicious tracks

[@nicksalmon]

They never disappoint.

[@silenceblue82]

Wow...
so perfect! 🖤🔥

[@Krylovix]

Such an amazing video and listening experience

[@inrptn]

It's X & O, you already know it's good.

[@monikintin.3377]

Love this video. So beautiful and haunting chic! 🖤

[@diplomatbell]

Greetings fellow Silent one ✋🏿love me some Xeno and Oaklander

[@GhostshadowShadowghost]

JuSt FaBuLoUs ❦︎

[@Alwayslaughwhenyoucan]

Ciao Ciao!

[@millymolly189]

Awesome as always!

[@gracekuarz5964]

Exelente banda, los amo, gracias y saludos desde Argentina. ❤

[@Logan-zq4rr]

Love it! Reminds me of New Order's Technique album, specifically their song "Round and Round".

[@onlyyesterday1967]

Lovely

[@DrinkingFlowers]

I love this song

[@Dmode5]

Fantastic

[@AKERBERENES]

dope

[@Sumatra71]

Crazy love! So good!

[@joeykraftx9444]

The bass and the chords reminds me NewOrder and the album Technique, "Round and Round" in particular. :-)

[@msq-hologram7838]

So good! ❤️‍🔥

[@pierpa1047]

Superb 🖤

[@bloodyvampyrela]

Génial 💗

[@cinemaspin]

It's like artistic VHS fever dreams never left in minimal wave

[@sirianis]

I live in this video

[@nnnunemon4894]

Cold

[@strangekindoffish9898]

💜🖤💜

[@sashazoprak3253]

I want to dance 💃

[@footof]

Nice

[@vincentcornette554]

Thé voice is like lorry and thé chameleonsthe lonely spy and He..liverpool 1980

[@JoaoAkaFelix]

🎹💜

[@mikamagic6458]

💚☠️💚

[@annevbor]

AMO VOCES ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@Tadeoz_Ghvaladze]

[@Pawlakov1]

such a shame Sean isn't singing in recent X&O songs

[@arnaudbernier1406]

He actually is in Television

[@christianmittier426]

Cecilia Condit vibes

[@shanevincek364]

(777) I'm a lucky Elf.