Watch Raiden Freeman's Video For 'Megatron' feat. Annabel Lee

Creator of 2021's superb long player Stay Sharp, Raiden Freeman aka Jack Mells returns with possibly his most ambitious release to date 'Megatron', featuring Annabel Lee (Veronica Maughan). Out today via the team at Bankrupt Records, the single launches with an accompanying cinematic creation, co-directed, produced, written and shot by the inimitable Aotearoa songwriter / producer and Samuel Austin, who both also star in the clip alongside Maughan.

Welcoming viewers to a "world without song", the artist folds in appropriated collaged imagery with a gripping double-agent thriller narrative and metatextual reflections on hip hop promo videos. Interweaving elements of emo-pop, bass-bin destroying trap and lo-fi DIY songcraft with a soaring chorus — "I need to be anaesthetized before going outside like it was the first time in my whole life" — 'Megatron' sets the scene for Raiden Freeman's forthcoming album WITHIN THE SPEED LIMIT OF LOVE, releasing online and on MiniDisc on 13th December. Smash that play button and scope out the new record's tracklist below...

"The record is a calculated and methodical yet sprawling and vulnerable alt rock/pop treatise on principal songwriter Jack Mells's personal journey to finding his footing in the mechanics of reality. The album's themes include his place on the autism spectrum, his grief over the loss of his friend Reuben Winter, social conditioning, Japanese cinema, cause and effect, and a desire to make it through hard times while becoming stronger."

'Megatron' featuring Annabel Lee is out today on major streaming services.