Blue Bendy – “Vocal Fry Academia”

UK art-rock sextet Blue Bendy will release their sophomore album One Day This Will All Be Lore early next year, and we've already posted lead single "Dragonslayer." Yesterday, the band shared "Vocal Fry Academia," a drawling, self-aware, wordplay-heavy track that builds from an ornate ballad to a swirling hyperpop attack. The lyrics seem to concern the fleeting nature of extremely niche fame: "Whatever happened to bendycore? Probs hit the grave seven or eight microtrends ago." Here's what lead singer Arthur Nolan says about it:For the first time ever, started with the title (a clear albeit opaque idea) and then worked backwards. Never done it before, not sure I'll ever have the foresight to do it again. Another navel-gazing anthem that wants to have its memetic flowers and distance itself from the culture as much as possible. It’s all just isolated parasocial self-loathing and performative vanity. There’s probably a lot more where that came from. In the meantime, I think we should just all embrace the nihilistic reality of "being the best you, you can be."Keyboardist Olivia Morgan directed the song's cryptic, cinematic video. In a press release, she says:This video was another expe...