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Trip out with Typesetter in their new “Technicolor” video

After a few spins of Typesetter’s album Nothing Blues, which was released last October via 6131 Records, it becomes readily apparent that this is a band dedicated to music as craft, with each member playing their part in search of the best possible version of every song.

Over the course of the band’s evolution, their sound has become something that is nearly impossible to describe with language (corny as it may be, it’s just something that has to be experienced to be understood), but on Nothing Blues, excellent songwriting and production come together with creative and proficient musicianship to crystallize Typesetter’s dense indie-punk hybrid style. Above all, the band seems to have an intrinsic or instinctual understanding that every song has to have that one moment. Something unique that defines what the song (and the larger idea the song is trying to communicate) is all about. Something that sticks in the mind of the listener long after the album is over. If nothing else, Nothing Blues is a masterclass in how to find the heart of a song and expand it into something bigger than the sum of the individual parts.

That being said, all of that is kind of thrown out the window with “Technicolor,” the literal centerpiece of the album. It’s a three minute and thirty second song that sounds much longer, sprawling through a web of chunky guitars, melancholy horns, and pounding drums. It’s kind of Typesetter’s thing to disorient the listener with a stunningly deep well of complexity that only unravels after multiple listens (a testament to the mixing on the record), and that trait is in full bloom on “Technicolor.”

The above video embraces many of these same qualities, leaning into the songs title and central theme of feeling trapped in RGB screen fatigue while you’re desperately trying to save your soul from being damaged by the era endless entertainment.