Your leaping tears from blinking eyes
Fry the tilted mind
Love in a coffin
All is slain
Idol Talk, a North Carolina darkwave trio dealing in cold circuits and colder truths, arrives with Allure, their debut full-length via Boared to Death Records. Smeared in mascara and malaise, their sound conjures dancefloor drama and good old-fashioned existentialism.
Dark Objects, the second single from Allure, runs like cold mercury through heartbreak, hunger, and ruin. Idol Talk builds a sleek procession of synths and sorrow, nodding toward The Cure’s brittle beauty and the funereal poise of The Sisters of Mercy, while channelling the glassy precision of Drab Majesty and Twin Tribes. It’s icy riffs conjure a soundtrack for when the night extends into the witching hour, the kind of music played while streetlights blur and names are forgotten.
Lyrically, the trio wade through black mirrors, broken bodies, and the sickly glow of memory gone sour. Temples collapse…ice creeps…porcelain shatters. The self slips sideways. There’s no salvation here, only a steady spiral and the occasional flicker of something almost warm beneath the frost. Rather than fumbling for closure, Dark Objects presses into the cracks, lingers in the breaks, and scores the spaces where longing calcifies into ritual.
The delightful music video, directed by Troy Prater and Dan Mitre and edited by Prater, is a camp fever dream stitched from the band’s post-punk fragments. Filmed inside the dilapidated surrealism of The 13th Door in Timberlake, NC, and scripted by the band themselves (Tom Sowders, Eric Mann, and Josh Gaines), it plays like a séance on VHS. We’re taken on a silly, spooky romp through the halls of a haunted house; and in its eerie glow, Idol Talk is dressed for elegy. (Just don’t ask them how to get outta there!)
Watch the video for “Dark Objects” below:
Listen to Dark Objects below and order the single here.
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