WATCH: Scott Walker & Sunn O))) – Brando

Soused's opening track gets visual accompaniment

Scott Walker and Sunn O)))’s collaborative masterwork Soused was released this week, and today they’ve unveiled a video for the album’s opening track, ‘Brando’. It was directed by Gisèle Vienne, a previous collaborator with Sunn O)))’s Stephen O’Malley, with NPR noting that it stars the dancer Anja Röttgerkamp and actress Catherine Robbe-Grillet, both involved in some act of unexplained violence, unfurling over a discontinuous narrative and, crucially, deeply unsettling. As, too, is the unerring similarity of the shot of Léon Rubbens, playing a young boy, locking himself away in a dark room, to the front cover of Swans’ The Seer. Coincidence? (Yes.) Take a look and it above and read tQ editor John Doran talking to Walker about the record here.

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