Sequence Of Events, aka Düsseldorf duo Deniz Saridas and Joshua Gottmanns, step from Salon des Amateurs’ concrete cradle with a single that snarls at pop’s candy floss. Nature Hates Life arrives as a corrective: an abrasion disguised as allure. Where chart tunes tickle dopamine receptors, this track scrapes them raw.
A low, lurching bass throb sets the ground. Over it, shoegaze vapour drifts, then burns away beneath serrated electronics lifted straight from Rhine-Ruhr factories at shift change. The hushed vocals hover in the track, neither invitation nor warning, more cool recital from a witness already half elsewhere. Think a more introspective Einstürzende Neubauten; Throbbing Gristle siphoned through Slowdive haze, or Coil caught inside a broken Juno sequencer.
Nature Hates Life treats existence like a wiring error: birth as glitch, decay as routine maintenance. Rather than sink into gloom, the track circles its bleak premise with surgical calm, inviting thrill inside abrasion. From West Germany’s rustbelt soils, Sequence Of Events fuse motorik fizz, shoegaze haze, and steel-toothed industrial throb. Synths hum like factory ghosts, guitars blur into fog, rhythms punch holes in the haze. A grim philosophy, yes, yet tuned for the body…proof that ruin can still rattle ribs and spark a crooked grin.
If forthcoming album The Art of Memory carries this tension – beauty pressed flat against industrial indifference – Sequence Of Events may well become the scene’s newest circuit breaker. For now, Nature Hates Life stands as both provocation and promise: pop stripped of comfort, rebuilt for resilient ears.
“Kurt Cobain on an AKAI MPC2000,” the band quips. “We don’t consciously break down or combine genres,” they explain. “Everything is interwoven, like chemistry. Some reactions happen immediately, others take years under pressure.”
Directed by Deniz Ahmet Saridas and Joshua Gottmanns, the clip for Nature Hates Life plunges straight into retinal overload. Close-up textures ooze across the frame: oils bubbling like cosmic soup, macro shots splintered into kaleidoscopic shards. Everyday detritus recasts itself as alien artefact: hairline cracks become continental rifts, dust motes orbit like dying suns. Scenes flicker in dream-logic succession, each vignette dangling by a filament of barely coherent memory. It is less narrative than neurology, a rapid-fire slideshow of things we usually skip past, now thrust under the microscope until they pulse with uneasy life.
Watch the video for “Nature Hates Life” below:
The Art of Memory arose through improvisation rather than planning. Deniz Saridas and Joshua Gottmanns, self-taught players steeped in visual art, raided a cache of samples, clipped texts, and stray images, then stitched everything into feverish loops. Fin-de-siècle decadence rubs shoulders with séance chic; human hands trade data with algorithmic ghosts. The result feels less like an album, more like full immersion in sensory overflow. Instead of offering escape, Sequence Of Events force the listener to sit inside the static, sift the debris, and confront the echo that remains once the feed finally cuts.
Listen to Nature Hates Life below and pre-order The Art of Memory here.
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