Mike Birnbaum – HighClouds https://highclouds.org HighClouds - A Music Blog Mon, 20 Oct 2025 06:53:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://highclouds.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/favicon.ico Mike Birnbaum – HighClouds https://highclouds.org 32 32 110112611 Pictureplane shares new song and video “Night Falls” https://highclouds.org/pictureplane-night-falls-video/ Mon, 20 Oct 2025 06:53:49 +0000 https://highclouds.org/?p=65010 Pictureplane just dropped a nocturnal new single, “Night Falls”, and it’s every bit as haunting and hypnotic as you’d hope. Even better, it comes with an eerie video filmed on a mezcal farm in rural Oaxaca, Mexico. Directed and edited by Eduardo Caudillo, it follows a kind of lone nighttime journey that spirals into a dark, psychedelic awakening. It’s moody, trippy, and feels like it was plucked straight from a dream.

The track is the latest taster of Sex Distortion, Pictureplane’s next album, out October 31. The record’s name comes from an El-P lyric, and most of it was crafted in solitude at his Brooklyn studio before being polished up with Ben Greenberg and Mike Birnbaum, then mastered by Joe LaPorta. Expect deep vocals, foggy lo-fi drum machines, and pulsing synths that feel both gritty and otherworldly. Gothboiclique’s Yawns even pops in to add guitar on the title track.

]]> 65010 Pictureplane announces new album Sex Distortion, shares “Weeping Sky” https://highclouds.org/pictureplane-weeping-sky-video-sex-distortion-album/ Sat, 06 Sep 2025 06:06:59 +0000 https://highclouds.org/?p=64911 For nearly two decades, Travis Egedy, better known as Pictureplane, has been weaving his own strange and beautiful world across music, art, and fashion. From his early days in Denver to his influential years in Brooklyn and now Mexico City, he’s carved out a reputation as a fearless cultural experimenter. His paintings have been exhibited internationally, his Alien Body clothing line dives deep into the occult and symbology, and his music consistently pushes electronic sounds into new emotional territory. Whether touring with genre-bending acts or collaborating with icons like Lil Peep and HEALTH, Pictureplane has remained an underground force whose reach is anything but small.

This Halloween, he’s set to release his next full-length, Sex Distortion, via the excellent Music Website. The title nods to a lyric from El-P, and the record embraces a darkly theatrical spirit, macabre and sensual all at once. Built on a foundation of Italo synths, heavy low-end, and creeping drum machines, it was refined with the help of Ben Greenberg and Mike Birnbaum. The album follows his 2023 project Dopamine and continues his tradition of marrying sonic intensity with a slyly romantic edge.

Leading the way is the brand new single “Weeping Sky,” out now with a haunting video, that he made in collaboration with Chris Burden, one of Music Website co-founders. The throbbing track feels equal parts vampire hymn and twisted love song, its deep vocals drifting over a slow-motion trance pulse. Watch and pre-order via Bandcamp below.

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