Meljoann’s recently-released album HR, is the only one corporate themed-album you need and the latest video from it for the drippy neon track ‘I Quit’ goes deep into the nuance of “corporate dystopia,” as the Pitchfork review put it.
Meljoann says:
“This video shows me staging a timid protest about labour conditions, to an audience of Bosses who don’t care. It also features one of the smarmiest guitar solos to ever splurt onto a screen.”
Of the album, Mel says:
HR represents the ways in which we collude with, prop up, and replicate capitalism in our relationships and inner lives.
Its underlying concept describes our economic fundamentalism as a self-fulfilling model of reality that no-one escapes from: our utility as Human Resources”.
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005. He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Cara Magazine, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, co-founder of Lumo Club, event curator, Indie Sleaze club promoter, and producer of gigs and monthly listening parties & events in Dublin.
