Diving into a lush soundscape of layered sounds, Brooklyn's Semaphore continue to break barreirs as they explore elements of post-rock and IDM (intelligent dance music) with their new single "Pie". An accompanying music video provides a colorful, abstract-oriented visual, creating a hypnotizing, emotive vibe.

The New Fury premiered the track earlier this week, citing how it "diverges from their previous shoegaze-influenced output with a more electronic and IDM bent". Vocalist Siddhu Anandalingam shared that the band took direct influences from Tycho, Minus the Bear, Interpol, and Vasudeva as well as other post-rock and IDM artists. Never limiting themselves to a single genre, Semaphore seamlessly works their way into this new sonic territory with masterful precision.

"This song is about feeling used by people," said Anandalingam. "Slowly, piece by piece, parts of you are taken until there’s nothing left." A repetitive line throughout the song "is this what you wanted, is this what you wanted, is this what you wanted from me?" provides a trance-like atmosphere. An aura of slight relaxation is built, yet there is also a sense of loss, redundancy and frustration, perfectly reflecting the emotional exhaustion. Cresting, the track shifts into a heavier, louder, emotional wall of sound. "This song was born out of experiments with a DL4 guitar pedal, which has been a good writing tool," Anandalingam shared. "Usually, I loop small sections until I can figure out how to layer them, but also constantly came up with ambient loops while playing around with the pedal, never thinking about incorporating those into songs. This was the first time I decided to record one of the ambient loops I made and create a song around it."

Visually, the video changes to an abstract style, of reflected prisms. "We worked with our friend George Ivanoff again on this video. I came up with the full idea for the video, and wanted it to have two distinct parts, a “reality” based one and an “abstract” one, both dealing with the feelings of despair." Ivanoff also directed and filmed the band's music video for "Unreliable", released last month.

"Pie" is the second single from Semaphore's upcoming EP Leave With The Season, scheduled for release on Friday, February 22, 2019. Digital and limited physical cassettes are available for pre-order on Bandcamp. The album was self-recorded by the band, with mastering by Alan Douches at West West Side Music (Converge, Chelsea Wolfe, Animal Collective). Semaphore will celebrate with an EP release show on February 27 at Saint Vitus in Brooklyn, NY. "Pie" is out today and can be found now on Bandcamp, Soundcloud, and Youtube.