Yves Tumor - Echolalia

What this video is

Released January 2023 as the lead single from Yves Tumor's fifth studio album 'Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)' (Warp Records, March 17, 2023), 'Echolalia' arrived as a definitive statement of Tumor's post-Heaven To A Tortured Mind artistic ascendance. The video's Gulliver's Travels-derived surrealism — a giant restrained and overwhelmed by tiny doppelgängers in a…

Why it matters

A landmark of 2020s queer art-rock and neo-psychedelic video production, 'Echolalia' demonstrates how avant-garde artists deploy high-concept literary allusion and surrealist body-horror staging to extend musical themes into visual narrative. The video consolidates Yves Tumor's status as a leading…

The director

New Jersey-born (Plainsboro), London-based director, photographer, and cinematographer; Rutgers University alumnus. Self-taught image-maker who began shooting skateboard subculture. Known for dark, subculture-fused visual language spanning goths, fetishists,…