Vanity is a vicious god. From the flicker of the ring light to the glow of the scalpel, we kneel before its altar—bleaching, slicing, and filtering our way toward transcendence. The pursuit of beauty promises immortality, but always collects its toll in flesh. On their latest single, More Ephemerol turns that worship into wicked satire. “Glamour Victim” is both a pop song and a blood offering—an ecstatic hymn to self-destruction disguised as self-improvement.
“It’s actually one of the only campy things we’ve ever put out,” the band admits. “Aside from maybe the recent ‘Last Wave Calling’ video—but this is much campier than that, in my opinion.” That gleeful self-awareness oozes from every latex seam of Glamour Victim, transforming grotesquery into glitter and terror into theatre. Directed by Mike Manasewitsch, the video revels in its gruesome sense of humor. With outlandish practical makeup effects by Heather Galipo—a death-rock polymath known for her work with CrowJane, Egrets on Ergot, Prissy Whip, and Bustié—the film plays like a midnight screening of Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance filtered through a funhouse mirror. “The last music video that the director did prior to this was for GWAR,” the Fjerstad jokes. “If that tells you anything.”
Visually, the piece captures The Elephant Man’s haunting tableau of deformity and spectacle as refracted through The Substance’s surgical surrealism. Models parade mutated bodies down a sterile runway, their latex and scars gleaming under fluorescent light, while a crowd of black-clad onlookers—some drawn from the L.A. underground scene (Dildox, Scimitar, Kontravoid, and more)—watch in morbid fascination. It’s a grotesque fashion show where transformation becomes punishment, and glamour decays into fleshly ruin.
Musically, Glamour Victim swaps solemnity for sashay and swagger. Beneath its glinting layers of synthpop bounce and slick, danceable percussion lies a wry smirk—a sound that lands somewhere between “Sound of the Crowd” by The Human League and “He Saw the Light” by Martin Dupont. The song’s refrains shimmer and sneer in equal measure, marrying irony with irresistible rhythm. It’s sardonic, stylish, and impossibly fun—proof that More Ephemerol can dissect our cultural neuroses while still filling the dancefloor.
Watch the video for “Glamour Victim” below:
Glamour Victim appears on the Apotheosis Pageant [Deluxe Edition], a record that threads themes of transformation, obsession, and decay through a decadent electronic lens. Following the departure of former member Tamara Sky, the project continues under new creative direction, pushing deeper into its fascination with the limits of artifice and authenticity.
Apotheosis Pageant is out now.
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Oct 26 – NYC with Ghost Cop and Bustié
Oct 30 – Sanctum Festival (Chicago) with Madeline Goldstein and Ronnie Stone
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