French electro artist Gesaffelstein has been making waves recently, especially since being outed last Friday as one of the collaborators on Kanye West's upcoming Yeezus album (Dropping tommorow). Considering the extremely eccentric and fastidious nature of West's tastes, the revelation drew a ton of attention to the French producer, who whether through coincidence or not decided to give us a look into his pandora's box in the form of this brooding, heavy industrial track.
Replete with some mind bending, surreal dystopian imagery, Pursuit is extracted from his upcoming studio album, which has been in the works since 2011 in between collabs with artists like Lana Del Rey, Miss Kittin and other artists on top of their game. Directed by Fleur & Manu, the overlying theme to the unsettling visual narrative centers around the pursuit of power at any expense: Morality, dignity, sanity. The golden gloved individuals in each scene represent the supposed reward, everything around them represents the cost of the pursuit. By far one of the coolest music videos we've seen in a while. Gesaffelstein's studio album will be dropping sometime towards the end of the year.
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