New York-based goth act Crimson Brûlée has just released the new video for their track, “Why I Wear Black” in support of the charity cause Goths for Sanctuaries (see more info below on this charity).

Here’s what vocalist/guitarist, Lapis Ahumada, says about the video: “The video was originally shot around 2 years ago, and of course we were planning on releasing it as a proper follow up to our first video for “I came back to you” which was received with much love. However, health issues with some members of the band held up the full finish of the video as well as recordings, and shows. So sadly, the video got pushed to the backburners.”

Then around September – October 2023 Shellee Turner (Goths for Sanctuaries) reached out and the band started talking about doing a special remix for her charity venture. The band decided to donate a special remix of “Why I wear black” to the good cause.

The remix itself was done by Lovers/Deceivers. “I was so blown away by the quality of the work that it inspired me to finish editing the video to help Shelle’s cause“, says Lapis Ahumada. “The video for the remix turned out a lot better than I had hoped for – which was great because I wanted to be a positive force in the “Goths for Sanctuaries” campaign. I was so happy with it in fact, that it inspired me to finish the video for the original song. I then jumped back on the horse and finished the video for “Why I wear black”.”

Crimson Brûlée video for “Why I wear Black”

You can check out the video here.

There will be another video release from Crimson Brûlée later this year and a new EP with more videos in 2024. “Why I Wear Black” is originally featured on the album “Tragica” released in December 2021. You can check it below on Bandcamp.

About Goths For Sanctuaries

Goths For Sanctuaries is a fundraiser for animal sanctuaries and rescues around the world. Animal sanctuaries and rescues struggled enormously during the pandemic with some even having to close their doors.

Shellee Turner explains: “Goths For Sanctuaries was born during the lockdown of 2020, out of a desire to bring the alternative community together, support the amazing bands and DJs that were keeping us all sane and to raise funds for animal sanctuaries & rescues around the world.”

With two festivals, an earthquake relief event and a co-curated album so far, they also organised a two-part festival in October and November 2023, with an accompanying charity compilation.

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(Photo by Veronica) The New Zealand dark pop outfit Robots In Love today share their latest EP, “Gossip in Your Head: Remixed”. The EP is the follow-up to the title-track’s original single release in September. “Gossip in Your Head: Remixes” is out now on Bandcamp, Spotify, and all the usual digital music outlets.

The new remix EP is accompanied by a video for the remix of the title track by Auckland’s dark electro-industrial dance act The Mercy Cage. Premiering exclusively on Side-Line, the video is a DIY effort, created at home by Robots In Love’s Elenor Rayner, who says: “For some reason, that remix makes me feel really joyful, so the video is a bit of fun.”

You can watch the video below.

On the “Gossip in Your Head: Remixed” EP you’ll find four different workings of the song, featuring The Mercy Cage and UK electronic artist Max Rael of Decommissioned Forests and History of Guns. Also included are Elenor’s own ‘Permanent Rain’ mix, and the song’s original recording, first written by Luke Anlezark and Graeme Jack of fellow Ōtepoti (Sydney) band, The Sound Key.

Elenor: “I love the variety of the tracks; each one highlights a different aspect of the song. The Mercy Cage remix is so dancey and bursting with energy. It makes me feel really happy whenever I hear it. The Permanent Rain version is more of a classic goth mix. Max Rael’s remix has a touch of trance in it, which is very seductive; and The Sound Key show their style of grunge rock indie.”

Josh Wood from The Mercy Cage says: “Gossip in Your Head is a killer slice of synthpop, and it was lots of fun to pull apart and piece back together.”

Max Rael adds: “Robots in Love always have such exquisite electronic textures in their music, and harmonies to die for. It was a real thrill to get the chance to remix their new dark pop single ‘Gossip in Your Head’. I wanted to push the Lynchian dream vs nightmare quality in the first half into the middle section, and then pump the energy and take it in a different direction for the rest.”

About Robots In Love

Led by Australian artist Elenor Rayner, Robots In Love became Elenor’s focal project in 2017, following her move from Melbourne, Australia to Dunedin, New Zealand. Elenor is currently joined in Robots In Love by drummer, multi-instrumentalist and electronic artist Alex Burchell; and bassist Tony Lumsden.

Elenor began playing the Australian pub circuit as a bassist during the 1980s when she was just 14, before switching to producing music on an Atari computer, “which opened up a universe of creating sounds and moulding them into rhythms and melodies until they evoke the exact feeling I need.” She has gone on to release hundreds of songs, appearing on more than 50 CD releases, and has played literally thousands of shows around the world with multiple bands and projects, including Soulscraper (1991-1994), Sobriquet alias Sobriquet Nation (1998-2016), Snog (1999-present), and The Crystalline Effect (2002-2014), among others.

After moving from Melbourne, Australia circa 2015 to Ōtepoti (Dunedin), New Zealand, Elenor ultimately adopted the Robots In Love moniker in 2017.

Elenor recently contributed to the gargantuan Goths For Sanctuaries fundraiser project for animal refuges, and is a prolific remix artist, producing Robots In Love mixes for IKON (Australia), JA/VI (Sweden), Voidant (UK/US), Suburban Spell (Australia), Justine Ó Gadhra-Sharp (New Zealand) and several others in the last eighteen months alone.

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Chief editor of Side-Line – which basically means I spend my days wading through a relentless flood of press releases from labels, artists, DJs, and zealous correspondents. My job? Strip out the promo nonsense, verify what’s actually real, and decide which stories make the cut and which get tossed into the digital void. Outside the news filter bubble, I’m all in for quality sushi and helping raise funds for Ukraine’s ongoing fight against the modern-day axis of evil.

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