Release – Autogramm, synth-driven power-poppers from Seattle, Chicago and Vancouver, have just announced their latest LP Music That Humans Can Play with an advance single and video for the track, “WannaBe.”
Their first album in more than two years will be released on vinyl and digital formats world-wide on November 17 via Stomp Records (and Beluga Records EU). They continue the band’s tradition of crafting new wave gems with a power pop twist.
Drawing on influences from the likes of The Cars, The Go-Go’s, Gary Numan, 20/20, and Devo, Autogramm have delivered an album that will fit in easily into the ’80s section of the record collection.
The video for the first advance single, “WannaBe,” was shot and directed by Jeffry Lee in East Vancouver. The greenscreen video captures the band on superimposed digital static while they perform the track live, and in true to form ’80s fashion.
“’WannaBe’ began as a way to say to the most important person in my life that I will stand beside them no matter what their direction, self-opinion, or physical state of being,” said drummer/singer The Silo. “Upon further reflection, I thought it could apply more broadly to all of our relationships in life: It’s a declaration of love and support to any friend, child, or lover who is going through a change in their self-perception; the idea that gender, occupation, size, skin, are all merely physical manifestations of being and will never matter as much as the person underneath it all.”
With a meandering bass run through the verses and spacious synth and drum parts, Autogramm leaves room for the song to breathe before building to the climax of the song where band members CC Voltage, The Silo, Lars Von Seattle and Jiffy Marx all harmonize to the refrain: “Be My Alien!”
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