Dead Boy Robotics – Arrival: Music video premiere

Edinburgh's resurgent dark pop trio Dead Boy Robotics share the video premiere for new single 'Arrival.' 

The clip, directed by Graeme Sutherland, follows a computer-generated sculptural bust falling through various incarnations of cyberspace before finally hitting the ground. "The track Arrival depicts the demise of a civilisation, and more widely, the human struggle against inevitable extinction," say the band of its dystopian theme.

"It's essentially a pop song about the apocalypse. As a band we have a deep fascination with books on the creation of the universe, solar systems, quantum physics, the evolution of species and their inescapable path towards extinction.

"For this record we basically wanted to write as catchy songs as we could then juxtapose that with these pretty dark tales of future. The video plays out this narrative through a symbolic destruction of beauty. Sculptures have always had such an historic significance to the human race, and even more so when one is felled. It's this demolition of a revered effigy that epitomises the end of a culture. That, and the fact people just love to see shit break."

The track is taken from their upcoming second album New Cells, due for release via their own Brothers Grimm label on 20 Nov.

Dead Boy Robotics play a launch gig for the single at Edinburgh's Limbo, Voodoo Rooms this Saturday (10 Oct) with support from Roy's Iron DNA and Miracle Ship.