The Public’s weekly local music reviews and previews. 

Video:  “Poison Arrows” by Night Slaves  Recommended if you like:  Swans, Container, Nine Inch Nails

The new video for Night Slaves’ “Poison Arrows,” released today, is a hallucinatory media nightmare. Produced by Flattsitter, the grainy black and white montage of news footage, virtual reality images, and cryptic symbols accentuates the bombastic, electronic industrial feel of the track.

Video:  “Jumping Out of Airplanes” by Jimkata  RIYL:  Yeasayer, The Rapture, !!!

Ithaca-based dance-rock band Jimkata released the video for their single “Jumping Out of Airplanes” last week. The video features a series of dancers dancing their ways through a dilapidated building, a city scene, and a beach to the band’s gossamer, groovy synth jam.