MSPaint, the Hattiesburg, Mississippi, synth-punk band, have announced a new EP. No Separation arrives May 23 via Convulse. Leading the quartet’s return is the single “Angel,” which comes with a music video directed by Alex Thiel. In the Matrix-coded clip, a suited-up Thiel stars as a business man suffering from controlling images as he becomes possessed by a hooded figure. Watch it below.
“Angel” is the first new music from MSPaint in two years, following their 2023 debut album, Post-American. While that breakout LP, which features Militarie Gun singer-guitarist Ian Shelton on the single “Delete It,” was produced by Shelton and Taylor Young, No Separation instead opted for Show Me the Body’s Julian Cashwan Pratt and Harlan Steel to record and produce the new EP.
“Most of our music is genuinely inspired by our relationships to each other,” explained synthesizer player Nick Panella. “We bring together disparate musical philosophies and try to marry them and create our own community that can accept those differences and actually thrive as a result of them. Originality ultimately isn’t about creating something new as much as it’s about navigating your own inner world and the inner worlds of those directly around you until you’ve learned something that hasn’t been learned before.”
Read about MSPaint in the essay “Hardcore Expanded Its Boundaries in 2023—and the Scene Embraced It” and see where their song “Delete It” landed in “The 100 Best Songs of 2023.”
