Anonymous Trio Nrvs Unleash New Single & Video “Scum”

A new season, a new feeling and Nrvs are back with their inimitable take on humanity’s downward spiral into a dysfunctional entropic existence! Having left us spellbound with their take on the one dimensional aspect of online relationships with I Like You, and then questioning our individual motivations for creating a new version of ourselves on Breeders, the anonymous galactic trio now come with Scum, the next offering in their episodic upcoming sci-fi EP I Like You, that is due out early summer.

With its abrasive minimalist post-punk feel along with Velvets inspired grunge guitar, this latest song, and the first they ever wrote, sees band member Ten Pence proclaiming deeply about his place in the world and the seeming futility behind trying to make a difference. “So what about Scum? We’re all scum” say Nrvs, “we’re the future of the human race and we’re fucked, as Extinction Rebellion used to say when they were cool – and we love it, or at least we seem to! Us lot just happen to be feeling it at the moment cos we happen to be alive now, so we’re the toppest layer of the pond… scum, get it?”

As with their previous singles, Scum continues with the sci-fi visuals from London director Grain Freeze & this time 3D artist Matt Bateman brings his animation skills to the party. Scum is the third film in the saga following an astronaut on a journey to the edge of the universe. In this episode she falls into a computer system & finds herself turned into an avatar in a 3-dimensional world. Is this a sci-fi simulation? Has the alien planet found a better way to talk to her?

After a period of exile for Ten Pence, the London based trio are gearing up to present an anonymous live experience that will send you back to your shrink. Along with frequent visual collaborator Mike Raymond (HMLTD), who has created several retina-scorching videos for the group, Nrvs are shaping “a nightmare-normal vision of the near future, that you can dance to”.

You can stream Scum here