Ziemba Turns “We Implode” Into A Dreamy Collapse You Can’t Look Away From
Today’s Vid-Visuals of the Day belongs to Ziemba, the multidisciplinary artist also known as René Kladzyk, and her dazzling new single “We Implode.”
The track arrives ahead of Ziemba’s forthcoming album The Braid, and according to Kladzyk, it was written across the course of a decade. That long gestation fits the song’s strange emotional pull: reflective, unsettled and somehow uplifting all at once.
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Ziemba has long blurred the lines between music, performance, scent and visual art, so it makes perfect sense that “We Implode” doesn’t arrive as just another single with a pretty clip attached. The visual world feels like part of the composition itself — baroque, dreamlike and slightly uncanny.
The official video is directed by Laura Bartczak and Liz Charky, giving the track a visual identity that leans fully into Ziemba’s habit of making atmosphere feel like a physical thing.
And because one still is never going to do this one justice, dig into more of the visual world below before the full video takes over.
It is theatrical without becoming fussy, hypnotic without losing the song underneath it, and exactly the kind of visual that earns a repeat before you have even decided what you just watched.
Watch Ziemba’s “We Implode” Official Video
Directed by Laura Bartczak and Liz Charky, the video accompanies Ziemba’s new single from the forthcoming album The Braid.
Source: Ziemba official video; Stereogum; Ziemba Bandcamp.
