Could we all just find it in ourselves
To hang it on the shelf
To send it straight to hell
Resistance isn’t winning any wars
And fortitude is all we have now
If you ever wondered what self-liberation sounds like when it’s got a synth under one arm and a mirror under the other, More Ephemerol’s frenetic Disengagement Ring is your answer: a hymn to the moment you stop apologizing for existing. The band, bolstered by Gina Kuhn’s cool, glassy vocals, has made something that feels like a midnight transmission from the center of an existential panic, intercepted by someone dancing their way out of it.
Producer Matia Simovich keeps the thing taut and electric, every layer clicking into place like the machinery of an ecstatic breakdown. The bass is a low heartbeat plucked from that slick little Steinberger, and it anchors the whole neon nervous system. You can hear the humanity pushing through the sequencers, the pulse of someone trying to remember they’re still alive. It’s like the Human League got lost on their way to a Eurovision afterparty and decided to start a cult instead.
Lyrically, the song gnaws on fear like it’s gum you can’t spit out. “Disengage to engage,” they chant, and it feels like gospel for the post-digital disillusioned. The tune is an invitation to stand up, to walk out the door, to remember what your bones are for. You can almost see the skin shed in real time, the transformation both painful and weirdly joyous.
The video takes that strange liberation and hurls it into chaos. Directed and edited by Sean McGuirk, it’s a surreal mashup of retro nightmares and pixelated salvation. Imagine playing Doom while trapped inside an Italo disco fever dream, every frame jittering between parody and prophecy. There’s camp, there’s colour, and there’s the unmistakable sense that the apocalypse could actually be fun if the right track is playing.
Watch the video for “Disengagement Ring” below:
This is a reminder that even our nostalgia can mutate. More Ephemerol sound like they’ve found something human under the wires. Kuhn’s voice slices through, cool and luminous, while the synths rise like a mechanical choir behind her. Disengagement Ring has the gall to believe that transformation can still happen—even in the middle of the noise.
Listen to Disengagement Ring below and order the single here.
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