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Plaid - Wallet

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ArtistPlaid

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Synopsis

A stream of luminous, abstract images unfolds like a half-remembered world. Simulated sunlight washes over shifting landscapes, city forms, geometric structures and hazy surfaces, with each scene dissolving into the next. Rather than presenting a literal narrative, the video creates the sensation of moving through memories that are vivid but unstable. Its glowing colors and blurred details mirror the track's dreamy electronic pulse, suggesting a world reconstructed by the mind from incomplete impressions.

Factoids & Trivia

  • The video accompanied "Wallet," a track from Plaid's 2014 album "Reachy Prints," released through Warp Records.
  • Its imagery was created from electronic signals, which were transformed into representations of sunlight, landscapes and cities rather than filmed as conventional locations.
  • The visual concept treats reality as a mental construction: recognizable forms appear convincing at first, then become diffuse and difficult to grasp.
  • Plaid connected the track's title to the objects commonly kept in a wallet, including money, receipts, business cards and photographs. These everyday items function as small physical records of personal experience.
  • The band's album title reflects an interest in the imperfect nature of reproduction. Like printed images and memories, the video presents copies that contain distortions, artifacts and inaccuracies.
  • The bright, daylight-oriented palette was developed in response to the music, with simulated sunlight serving as a central visual element.
  • Plaid also associated the song with the possibility that digital storage could eventually make physical wallets and purses obsolete.
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