Peace - automan [music video]

The Project

automan are excited to be producing their debut music video for their latest single “Peace”. The story is written, the crew is assembled, and now they need your help! They’ve got a brilliant dark comedy in the works to accompany this - soon to be - hit song, now they just need the funds to get the project across the line!

Recorded partly by Brown at his home in south-west London, and partly with Steve Lyon at Panic Button Studios (The Wedding Present, Prefab Sprout), 'Peace' offers the second and final teaser of upcoming EP Vegetables, a release which digs for self-worth and validation within the pressures and identity crises of modern life - channeling all it's hard-exteriors, while betraying the soft-emotional underbelly tearing up beneath. Check out Peace now!

About the band

automan is the project of London based musicians Freddie Brown and Huw Bell, with Gabriele Zatterin. They’ve been gigging on the circuit for over a year, with a Lexington BadVibrations support slot, as well as regulars for promoters Permanent Creeps and Triples is Best.

The Spotify playlisted band are building a name for themselves. Recently favoured by the Roundhouse and BBC Introducing teams the boys are set to perform among other emerging artists at Roundhouse Rising Festival .

Why they need your help

The band have been putting away the pennies from their gigs to get the project up and running over the last few months but to fully realise this new creative baby there are some extra costs outwit their reach.

About the song

Jangling at the crossroads where bedeviled grunge meets melancholic shoegaze-pop - recalling the likes of Fraulein and The Goa Express - 'Peace' channels both the paranoia of an exhausted, sleep-deprived brain, and as well as their own vulnerability at trying to confront it, as songwriter Freddie Brown explains:

“Peace” channels that feeling of when your brain is so loud that you can't sleep; in the middle of the night, your thoughts are at their worse, and that acute sense of paranoia can quickly spiral out of control. I wrote it in the middle of the night, thinking I was copying Morning Bell by Radiohead. I got hooked on this two chord sequence, addicted to the way they don't quite solve each other - just the right amount of uncomfortable."