There are those who move through the world as if blindfolded, mistaking impulse for wisdom, mistaking noise for truth. They rush forward, unthinking, untethered, grasping at illusions that crumble in their hands. Reason becomes an afterthought, a forgotten relic buried beneath the wreckage of their own unchecked certainty. The air thickens with half-formed thoughts, with declarations shouted but never examined. They build castles on sand, then rage when the tide returns. To see clearly requires patience, but patience is a burden to those who mistake motion for progress, who confuse recklessness for freedom, who refuse to listen, yet demand to be heard.
This fever takes its shape in Poison Cloud, the latest transmission from Porcelain Dancer, the sonic construct of Yiannis D—a man less content to play machines than to make them speak. An analogue synthesizer engineer by trade, Yiannis doesn’t merely assemble circuits; he bends them to his will, wresting voltage and signal into something both spectral and searing. His is a craft rooted in obsession, a twin fixation on post-punk’s frostbitten minimalism and goth’s funereal grandeur.Yet invention alone was never enough. With Poison Cloud, Yiannis D steps forward, turning dials into declarations, circuits into confessions, channeling electricity into something undeniable. The machines were never just tools; they were always the message, waiting to be sent.
The song speaks of minds unmoored; reasoning unraveled; souls swallowed by a world built on borrowed beliefs, shaped by unseen hands long before they could resist.
The video, directed by Simone Pellegrini, fractures into eerie vignettes… a dancer untamed; a hooded specter with a face cracked like porcelain; an artist lost in creation confronting both on a dim-lit stage where reality dissolves into something darker.
Watch the video for “Poison Cloud” below:
After eight years spent in the background, threading basslines into other people’s songs, sculpting synth tones in service of someone else’s vision, the need to create refused to be buried. Years of tuning, testing, and troubleshooting for others had only sharpened the impulse for Yiannis D: his own voice, his own work, could no longer remain dormant.
Porcelain Dancer’s first solo EP, A Documentary About Nightmares, will be released on 3 March 2025 -the culmination of therapy, self-awareness, and love. This will be celebrated with a live concert at Madame Club in Brazil.
Listen to Poison Cloud below and purchase the single here.
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