Japanese artist Yuri Suzuki has released an acid house record and corresponding video protesting Brexit and the rise of anti-immigrant mentality.
Called Acid Brexit, the three-track album and video is a collaboration between Suzuki, fellow Pentagram partner Luke Powell and his brother Jody Hudson-Powell.
The album cover has a European flag with an upside down, yellow smiley face in the place of one of its stars. A disorientating short video accompanies the record, featuring an oversized smiley dancing across Westminster bridge in London.
Video intended as a tool for protest
The video, created by the Powell brothers, references the flashing graphics and DIY attitude of early acid house videos in the late 1980s and 1990s. It is completed with a blurred vignette that distorts the outer corners of the video, intended to evoke an acid trip. The video references the flashing graphics and DIY attitude of early acid house videosIntended as a tool for protest, to be played at "mashups, house parties, and everything else in between", the album features samples of interviews with Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson and Theresa May – all British politicians involved in the Brexit campaign or negotiations – to a backdrop of squelchy acid house beats.
"I am an immigrant to the UK. My work started on this project last year, propelled by my frustration towards the anxiety and pressure placed on immigrants by government actions," said Suzuki, whose other m...