UK trip-hop duo Massive Attack and Young Fathers have released the music video for the group's recent collaboration "Voodoo In My Blood," off of the duo's recent, surprise EP Ritual Spirit. The somewhat disturbing music video features Gone Girl actor Rosamund Pike as the main protagonist.
Pike is pitted in a battle against herself and a menacing metal orb that is able to take control of her mind. She starts by walks down an abandoned subway entrance looking over her shoulder the whole time and eventually the metal orb comes out from behind a corner and sticks a needle into her eye and takes control of her mind. She is tossed around the dirty room at the will of the ball, sometimes violently.
The video can be seen as a metaphor for the control that technology has over humans now in 2016.
Pike says coyly about the video in a press release, "Am I involved?... Someone said the girl in the video looks like me. I have been to the Joe Strummer subway. I did have a strange encounter there once."
The video is the latest to emerge from Massive Attack's recent EP that has collaborations with Tricky, Roots Manuva, Azekel and Young Fathers.
2016 will mark a comeback for Massive Attack who will be releasing music for the first time in six years and tour as well.
The group plan on releasing another EP this spring, written and co-produced by Grant "Daddy G" Marshall, with an album at some point later this year.
They are the midst of a European tour that finishes up in Paris this weekend and then they have a host of European festival gigs this summer. See the full schedule here and watch the haunting music video below.
