The GothBoiClique member’s first ever vocal release documents a special moment in L.A.’s DIY music scene
In the 1984 cult science-fiction movie Repo Man, the audience follows Los Angeles punk Otto as he gets involved in repossessing an otherworldly Chevy Malibu. Early on in the film, the protagonist is seen violently slam-dancing amongst other punks in an vandalized alleyway — yet there’s no band playing. In a quintessential display of punk apathy, limbs flail and beer bottles break as Otto his fellow degenerates mosh to the radio, deriving nothing but an anarchic thrill from it all.
Just as Repo Man is a snapshot into L.A.’s hardcore punk scene of the early 80s, fish narc’s new video for “WiLDFiRE” documents another moment in the city’s musical history — one 30 years later. We follow our new punk protagonist, fish narc, as he and his fellow GothBoiClique members roam the city’s underbelly, putting together an alleyway moshpit of their very own. A maelstrom of distorted guitar riffs and rapid-fire percussion allows fish narc to lament on a darker period of his L.A. experience, one of self destruction and drug-induced insomnia. Yet as fish narc howls into the mic, his sense of urgency and excitement buzzes just as loudly as his amp’s feedback.
Considering it’s his first vocal release as fish narc, “WiLDFiRE” marks a pivotal point in the producer’s career. His album of the same name should be arriving this April, led by four more singles. Until then, watch the David Zabriskie and Nick Blanco directed music video for “WiLDFiRE” below.