In the movie Under The Skin, Scarlett Johansson’s alien character lures men to their fate in a pure-black space. These scenes are striking in their stark beauty, with all parties accepting their compulsion into the unknown as bodies step downward into a fathomless black ooze. In Circuit des Yeux’s first single from In Plain Speech, there’s a similarly soothing allure to “Fantasize The Scene” — which is also coincidentally about new connections that last an eternity, meticulously arranged as the sensation of sinking into nothing and everything.
