Nancy Nightmare marks DAVID BORING’s first new release in a long time, serving as the lead single from their forthcoming album Liminal Beings and Their Echoes.
Originally written at the height of lockdown and shared as a Halloween 2020 demo, the track hinted early on at the band’s shift away from their guitar-driven post punk roots toward a harsher, tech-powered electro-noise direction.
Their commitment to blending genres is unmistakable here, as the song twists from post punk into noise rock, drifts into industrial territory, and brushes up against no wave, all while embracing an experimental, boundary-pushing attitude.
The story is told in the first person and follows a protagonist who is buried alive before facing a suffocating confrontation with their own inner collapse. With flashes of body horror framing their grasp on sanity, the song charts a strange evolution, progressing from terror to almost blissful release as their mind decays.
The single arrives alongside a music video created by Bio-Toilet Releasing, a Hong Kong indie collective known for their B-movie sensibilities. Shot on a thrifted digital camcorder, the video leans into exploitation and grindhouse textures, soaked in moral bleakness and evoking low-budget Hong Kong splatterpunk staples like The Untold Story (1993) and Black Sun (1995).
Featuring every member of the band, the video unfolds a grimy, jarring, and darkly humorous storyline as the violence inflicted on its nameless central figure steadily escalates. It reflects the group's long-standing love of DIY aesthetics, cult cinema, and unadorned realism, as well as their proclivity to use those influences to explore the conflict between fear and inaction.
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