Thrash Palace ＂Go＂ - Thrash Palace ＂Go＂

What this video is

Released August 16, 2023 as part of Sub Pop's Singles Club Vol. 8, 'Go' emerged from a spontaneous 48-hour recording session at Vice Cooler's Los Angeles studio in 2022, bringing together three veterans of the American underground: EMA (Erika M. Anderson, of Gowns and Amps for Christ), producer Vice Cooler (XBXRX), and guitarist Sarah Register (Talk Normal). The video's hyper-edited, bare-bones aesthetic mirrors…

Why it matters

The video is a significant artifact of 2020s DIY fuzz-rock and noise-rock supergroup culture — a genre mode defined by pedigree collisions rather than commercial calculation. Its rapid-cut, desaturated, self-shot visual grammar extends a tradition from 1990s Sub Pop aesthetics into the…

The director

Vice Cooler is an LA-based producer and multi-instrumentalist, formerly of avant-noise band XBXRX. He has produced and collaborated with artists including Kim Gordon, Peaches, Ladytron, Louisahhh, and AH-MER-AH-SU. A co-founder of Thrash Palace alongside EMA…