Kiwi, New Zealand duo The Wyld have just put out an impressive video for their latest single, “Odyssey,” set to appear on their upcoming Abstract EP. From the first moment–a piercing militaristic drumline–we know that “Odyssey” is going to be both a primal and precise experience. Though the choice for a lyric video may not have been the best one, as the words simply don’t match the sounds in terms of originality or grip, the other visual choice, a slow-motion, black-and-white cheetah, was a great one. The song as a whole gives off a distinct Kid Cudi vibe, sounding like a raw composite of at least three tracks from Cudi‘s debut album. The Wyld has us intrigued. Get acquainted below.

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A few years ago we wrote about George Condo. His tight relationship with Kanye West propelling his rise to fame and two years later, Condo’s still making West’s album covers, and memorable art. This time for “Cold” ( both “Theraflu” and ” Way too Cold” have been dropped).

Condo is one of the most prominent contemporary artist of this time. He works with various techniques from painting to printmaking, and created the genre of Artificial Realism, “The realistic representation of that which is artificial,” he says.

Recently his work has become increasingly more abstract, but in a different way than you might expect. He challenges the definition of abstract by including faces and bodies, but Condo himself does not use that term to describe his work, scared of the negative connotation it often carries.

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