Technology + Teamwork share new Simon Owens-directed video
ECHNOLOGY + TEAMWORK SHARE NEW VIDEO FOR “YOU SAW SOMETHING IN ME” [WATCH HERE]
VIDEO DIRECTED BY SIMON OWENS IS SET IN A UK HOSPITAL AND DEPICTS A LOVE STORY BETWEEN TWO BIN BAGS
DUO COMPRISED OF SARAH JONES (HARRY STYLES, HOT CHIP ET AL) AND ANTHONY SILVESTER
Technology + Teamwork, the duo comprising Sarah Jones and Anthony Silvester, recently released their debut album We Used To Be Friends via Good Way Records.
Today, they share a brand new music video directed by Simon Owens (Alexis Taylor, Hot Chip, LCD Soundsystem, Caribou, Anna Meredith). Watch the video HERE.
“I repeatedly slapped my thigh during a waking dream hearing Technology + Teamwork ‘We Used To Be Friends” (a mosquito wouldn’t leave me alone whilst at the same time a delivery bike went past my bedroom window playing the tune loud). It would not leave my brain.
“Gushing with praise, I sought immediate contact and the band sent me their brilliant album containing “You Saw Something In me” and I was hooked. What’s not to like about a track that sounds like Belgian techno featuring a pitched down ‘Taylor Dayne’ singing what could be a ‘Hall and Oats’ song on Eurovision? I had to make a video for this tune. But what? Two bin bags, one in love with another, no matter what, run over and hospitalised, lip-syncing. Natch.” – Simon Owens, director
“The song is about that rush you get when someone believes in you. We wrote it in a mouldy basement under a carpet shop opposite Oxfam, which was our studio for 2 years. We would often have each other in hysterics while writing it. Simon approached us with the idea of making a video about two, discarded bin bags falling in love. We couldn’t have been happier.” – Anthony Silvester
Listen to the debut album We Used To Be Friends HERE
About Technology + Teamwork
Anthony Silvester and Sarah Jones first collaborated as part of biting post-punk five-piece XX Teens in 2008, eventually breaking off to forge their own path together even as the latter’s demand as a drummer grew. Performing with everyone from Hot Chip, Harry Styles and Bloc Party (among many others), Jones has been a constant percussive presence across the sphere of alternative UK pop music – she’s also found time for her own solo project Pillow Person and played on records by the likes of Puscifer and Kurt Vile.
Silvester meanwhile has performed in art galleries across Europe including: Fridericianum in Kassel, Kölnischer Kunstverein in Cologne, and Vleeshal in Middelburg, as well as providing sound design and composing work for several art films.
Technology + Teamwork is the constant throughout all of that though. “Technology + Teamwork’s name perfectly describes how we work,” Silvester explains. “Sometimes the teamwork is between each other and sometimes it’s between us and the technology.”
The album bristles with hyperpop modernity. However, the pair also looked to San Francisco and the West Coast synthesis movement of the 60s, Silvester inspired by the likes of Suzanne Ciani and Don Buchla.
Thematically there’s an anxious sense to the record, with tracks often balancing above a quiet sense of unerring tension even at their most bombastic. Those clouds offer a counter point to We Used To Be Friends, but then isn’t that what great pop albums do? Technology + Teamwork undoubtedly love the craft of the hook and the song, but they always position themselves left of centre, prepared to scuff things up, pull something out of shape or manipulate something to leave it sounding warped. Much like their friendship, nothing here is particularly linear – and it’s all the better for it.
We Used To Be Friends is out now on Good Way Records [purchase HERE].
“You Saw Something In Me”
music video / lyric video / streaming services
“Big Blue”
lyric video / streaming services
“Amsterdam”
lyric video / streaming services
“We Used To Be Friends”
Download hi-res “You Saw Something In Me” video stills
Download hi-res Technology + Teamwork photo
Download hi-res We Used To Be Friends album artwork
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