Brooklyn electronic duo Beacon are releasing their first album in four years, Along the Lethe, on September 9 via Apparent Movement (pre-order). It features appearances by Matthew Dear and Colin Stetson, the latter of whom is on recent single "Ostrich," and we're now premiering third single "Pay My Debts" and its video. The song is a dose of atmospheric, downtempo pop, and its video adds to its surreal, oblique darkness. Beacon say:
The title of our new album, Along the Lethe, came from lyrics in the song “Pay My Debts.” The Lethe is one of the five rivers of the underworld in Greek Mythology and souls who drank from it lost all memory of their lives on earth. Forgetting can be seductive, and the Lethe offers a kind of absolution—not in the form of forgiveness, but erasure. The desire to transform the collective trauma of the last two years into a collective amnesia is one of the themes of our new record. The chorus in “Pay My Debts” alludes to an impending ecological disaster that’s followed the narrator even into Hades: “Something in the sky turns black, start another fire, I guess.” Despite the allure of forgetting, and the Lethe's metaphysical power to do so, the spectre of the last two years is inescapable.