Doldrums - Loops

What this video is

Released April 2015 alongside Doldrums' Sub Pop debut album 'The Air Conditioned Nightmare', 'Loops' emerged from the fertile Montreal warehouse creative scene that also produced Grimes and Majical Cloudz. The video encapsulates a mid-2010s moment when post-internet artists were applying sample-based collage logic — long central to experimental music — directly to music video visuals. Director Lily X. Wahrman's…

Why it matters

A key artifact of 2010s post-internet experimental electronics, 'Loops' demonstrates the genre's synthesis of noise, dance, and art-video traditions. As Doldrums' Sub Pop debut single, it represents the mainstreaming pipeline from underground Montreal DIY scenes to internationally distributed…

The director

Lily X. Wahrman is a filmmaker and video director associated with the production company Astral Projects. She is known for her psychedelic, surrealist visual style. Prior to 'Loops', she directed the 18-minute short film/psych-opera 'Never Forever' for…