AUTOGRAMM Announce New LP With Advance Video & Single “WannaBe“
Autogramm, synth-driven power-poppers from Vancouver have just announced their latest LP Music That Humans Can Play with an advance single and video for the track “WannaBe”.
Their first album in over two years will be released on vinyl and digital formats worldwide on November 17th via Stomp Records (and Beluga Records EU). They continue the band’s tradition of crafting new wave gems with a power pop twist. Drawing on influences from the likes of The Cars, The Go-Go’s, Gary Numan, 20/20, and Devo, Autogramm have delivered an album that will fit easily into the 80’s section of your record collection, with songs so well-crafted they probably deserve to be on the soundtrack of Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
The video for the first advanced single “WannaBe” was shot and directed by Jeffry Lee in East Vancouver. The greenscreen video captures the band on superimposed digital static while they perform the track live, and in true to form 80’s fashion.
Drummer/singer The Silo reflects on the inspiration behind the song,
“WannaBe began as a way to say to the most important person in my life that I will stand beside them no matter what their direction, self-opinion, or physical state of being. Upon further reflection, I thought it could apply more broadly to all of our relationships in life: it’s a declaration of love and support to any friend, child, or lover who is going through a change in their self-perception; the idea that gender, occupation, size, skin, are all merely physical manifestations of being and will never matter as much as the person underneath it all.”
With a meandering bass run through the verses and spacious synth and drum parts, Autogramm leaves room for the song to breathe before building to the climax of the song where band members CC Voltage, The Silo, Lars Von Seattle and Jiffy Marx all harmonize to the refrain: “Be My Alien!”