MusicFirst LookCYMBALS – ErosionExclusive: Get off your head with the London four-piece's wavy new video, feat CGI cats and cupcakesShareLink copied ✔️March 4, 2014MusicFirst LookTextSuze Olbrich The fluid CGI landscape of dance-pop band CYMBALS’ new video was inspired by Marxist writer Marshall Berman's 1970 book All That Is Solid Melts Into Air, which comes alive as singer Jack Cleverly is rendered as marionette-like (and then headless) against green-screen backgrounds straight out of Windows 98. Director Matthew Reed sifted through back of the web-sofa fluff for the stickiest memes and tropes to form the "HD sludge" which CYMBALS are subsumed by. URL vs IRL unfurls before our eyes, and it sounds so sweet. CYMBALS play Corsica Studios on June 4. Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREMoses Ideka is making pagan synth-folk from the heart of south LondonBehind-the-scenes at Oklou and FKA twigs’ new video shootZimmermannKindred spirits and psychedelic florals: Zimmermann heads to 70s Sydney Björk calls for the release of musician ‘kidnapped’ by Israeli authoritiesIB Kamara on branching out into musicEnter the K-Bass: How SCR revolutionised Korean club culture‘Comic Con meets underground rap’: Photos from Eastern Margins’ day festWho are H.LLS? Get to know London’s anonymous alt-R&B trioTaylor Swift has lost her grip with The Life of a Showgirl ‘Cold Lewisham nights’: Behind the scenes at Jim Legxacy’s debut UK tour All the pettiest pop beefs of 2025Has the algorithm killed music discovery?