Nyte Vypr Premiere “Necrotic Prayer” Video; Plutonic Out Now
Welcome to the weirdest shit you’ll likely see/hear today. Nyte Vypr is the Los Angeles-based avant techno solo-project of Collyn McCoy, also known for his work in Circle of Sighs, playing bass in Unida, fronting an outfit like Trash Titan back in the Stonerrock.com days, playing with Ed Mundell in The Ultra Electric Mega Galactic, and so on. Last month brought the release of the full-length Plutonic (review here), and at about seven and a half minutes, “Necrotic Prayer” — with a video premiering below — is the shortest and arguably therefore the most accessible song on it.
And no, I’m not going to attempt to convince you that this bizarre slo-mo clip of an in-shape dude doing interpretative undulations to drones, noise and exploratory keys/maybe-guitar is the most important thing happening in Los Angeles this week as the president of the United States dicksmears the constitution of same by deploying armed marines against people protesting by-gestapo deportations of non-citizens and citizens, the decay of due process, and now, the use of military intervention on US soil, which I’m pretty sure hasn’t happened on this scale in about 165 years.
The video arrives in a genuine ‘here we are’ of a moment that may or may not be the find-out accompaniment to all the dismantling of institutions and purges fucking-around earlier this year; a government made intentionally dysfunctional so that the mechanisms that would normally impede a transition to authoritarianism are gone. Do I think martial law is coming? Police have tanks. Teargas. Automatic weapons. And nobody’s stopping them. They don’t need it. They can run your ass over just fine without martial law. They’re a gang. And that’s before you get to the actual-military as opposed to the para kind. And if you think you’d get some Tiananmen Square shit where the tanks turn around and some hopeful moment happens, forget it. This is America. Your life means nothing unless you’re rich or you serve ‘the party.’
What I will say about “Necrotic Prayer” and its otherworldly, dark, and likely-voidward procession is it emphasizes that one of the things most worth preserving about this country’s current system (and plenty of other places as well) is freedom of speech. The ability to say and do whatever the fuck you want so long as nobody who doesn’t want to get hurt doesn’t. Like most ingenious concepts, it is simple, bordering on stupid, and yet it is the single most important right that’s been granted (unevenly) to any people, anywhere, ever. McCoy, Divine Brick (who is the dancer here), and others out there so likewise dug into their own thing are pushing the limits of style, of established ideas, and are essential to the innovation of what we think music can do or be.
This is progressivism in art, and it should correspondingly lead to a progressivism of thought, but for the billions-dollar propaganda machines countermanding underground creativity, from talk radio to algorithmic muting to an oligarch buying Twitter — it’s like they’re fighting ants with an AR-15, which surely some asshole in this country is doing right now.
I’m saying now is a time to get weirder, not quieter. This should help:
[Addendum June 11: After I finished writing the above, I saw that just yesterday, Nyte Vypr released the At Nyte collaboration album with soul singer Señora Bufo; completely different vibe, different take, and exactly what I was talking about a couple paragraphs ago. It streams at the bottom of this post.]
Nyte Vypr, “Necrotic Prayer” video premiere
Movement by: Divine Brick
Filmed and Edited by: Soohoo
Music by: NYTE VYPR
From the record “Plutonic” out May 7th care of Owlripper Recordings and Pillars of Creation/Suspirium Tactile Goods.
Señora Bufo & NYTE VYPR, At Nyte (2025)
NYTE VYPR, Plutonic (2025)
Owlripper Recordings on Bandcamp
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