“I think we’re in a music video,” is how SOLO ANSAMBLIS video for “Meilės Mašina” (“Love Machine”) opens, and what follows is an entertaining amalgamation of relationship tropes through a Y2K lens. I love how with both the track and the video, they’ve captured all our corny romcom caricatures of love and loss, basically the story my kids would believe if I didn’t talk to them about reality. And all it took was one listen for their “sad dance” disco darkwave sound to embed itself in my brain and leave me yearning for more! SOLO ANSAMBLIS is already big in Lithuania and now Artoffact Records is bringing them stateside with their new record Scenos — stay tuned for that here. Right now, watch their video for “Meilės Mašina” (“Love Machine”) here:
Looking with a smile at the stereotypical clichés of the relationship genre, the director (D. Petronis) created a kind of mashup of music videos, which includes both synchronized dancing, and romance in the studio rain, and a burning heart, and even a harassing director, played by one of the band members.
