Xeno & Oaklander - “Poison“ (Official Video)

“Poison“ is the second single from Xeno & Oaklander’s “Vi/deo“ Order on CD/LP/Digital: Xeno & Oaklander co-direct an Italo-disco inspired horror music video with long-time collaborator Scott Kiernan. A giallo short film of alluring abstract imagery and mystery. East Coast minimal wave institution Xeno & Oaklander’s seventh full-length further distills their iconic noir synth pop into a streamlined suite of gleaming, graceful retrofuturism. Inspired by ideas of synesthesia, scent, star worship, and obsolescent technologies, the duo of Liz Wendelbo and Sean McBride began conceiving the blueprint of Vi/deo while sequestered at their Southern Connecticut home studio during the pandemic. The context of isolation, streaming, and remote dreaming seeped into their chemistry, manifesting as both homage to and meditation on a certain cinematic strain of technicolor fantasy: the screen as stage, distance di