Talking with Thomas Azier last October about his second EP, Hylas 002, I was most taken with “Angelene,” a song that conjures a vision of Coldplay’s Chris Martin singing over Phil Collins’ “In The Air Tonight,” with bursts of an Atari videogame in the background.

I asked the Berlin-based electropop artist whether there was a real Angelene.

“Yes, Angelene is real, or maybe she isn’t,” he replied, “I never really find out.”

Now I know what he was on about, since Azier has now shared the music video, a clip that is manages to be both revealing and mysterious. In it, Azier plays an einzelgänger, a lonely soul wandering around the city.

“Béla Tarr’s Damnation is a big reference for the video,” Azier explains. “We used the rawness of real locations combined with highly stylized elements. The context of the video is the decaying architecture of East Berlin: Large flats and grimy industrial buildings form the exterior backgrounds, whereas the interior is a mix of cold East German design, inserted with futuristic and surreal elements. At the same time, we used hot and sweaty motifs in order to keep up with the song’s tropical mood, especially as expressed in the C-part of the song.”

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