TV Priest - Limehouse Cut

What this video is

Released April 27, 2022 as a single ahead of TV Priest's second album 'My Other People' (Sub Pop, June 17, 2022), 'Limehouse Cut' takes its name from a real canal in East London. Vocalist Charlie Drinkwater described the song as a psychogeographical study of urban dislocation — a meditation on the impossibility of 'owning' a regenerative city. The video's extreme formal restraint (single scene, ~3 minute duration,…

Why it matters

Represents the 2020s maturation of UK post-punk into a more atmospherically introspective, psychogeographically influenced mode. TV Priest's Sub Pop signing and critical placement alongside acts like Protomartyr and Fontaines D.C. marks the genre's transatlantic cultural currency. This visualizer…

The director

Al Redux is credited as director, producer, and editor of the 'Limehouse Cut' visualizer for TV Priest (2022, Sub Pop). No further verified biographical details are available from public sources at time of annotation.