We Owe Share the Music Video for New Single “Slight Inconvenience”

We Owe, the solo project of Brooklyn-based musician Christopher Pravdica (Swans, Xiu Xiu, The Gunga Din, etc.), recently returned with the announcement of his sophomore LP, Major Inconvenience, due this Friday, December 1st, via Mothland.

Following the recent release of the LP’s first few singles (“Time Suck” and “Illogical Thinking”), now, Pravdica returns with one last single from the record, a sprawling post-rock odyssey entitled “Slight Inconvenience.” The standout track features orchestral sampling by Phil Puleo (Swans, Cop Shoot Cop, Human Impact, etc.), while the track’s accompanying music video was directed by artist Jim Larson who also worked on lead singles “Time Suck” and “Illogical Thinking.”

As Pravdica wrote on the track:

“I did this track instrumental with backing vocals. Trying for a more melodic sound. I was gonna do lyrics, but I found this patient interview that I very much related to, and I dropped it over the music. It fit so well that I was like: ‘Yo, this works!’”

Video director Jim Larson continued:

“The song ‘Slight Inconvenience’ contains an audio sample from an actual therapy session with a catatonic schizophrenic from many years ago. So I decided to sample the visual portion of the interview and edit the footage to make a new version to accompany the song.”

Major Inconvenience is aptly described by sole-member Christopher Pravdica as “post-alternative.” Informed by industrial, experimental music and avant-garde pop, this sophomore release from the Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist is genre-bending, musically elusive and lyrically confounding: an inventive strand of electronic music bordering anti-pop, synth punk and post-rock.

Over eleven tracks à géométrie variable, Pravdica devises musical mazes where synthesizers abound, the line between drum machine and acoustic percussion is blurred, and guitar riffing is usually the affair of bulkier four-string models commonly referred to as bass guitars. Whether endorsing the act of wasting time, providing ludicrous dream interpretations or musing about a couple from Pompeii having sex at the base of an erupting volcano, the Brooklynite manages to induce complex emotions ranging from a perplexed frown all the way to a collusive grin.

We Owe’s Major Inconvenience is self-produced but also features timely contributions from longtime friends Thor Harris (Swans, Xiu Xiu), Phil Puelo (Swans), and TRZTN. The full-length drops on December 1st, 2023, via Montréal boutique label Mothland, and should please fans of Nine Inch Nails, Throbbing Gristle, or Björk.

Major Inconvenience Track Listing:

1. Time Suck
2. Illogical Thinking
3. Only One (feat. Thor Harris & TRZTN)
4. Slight Inconvenience (feat. Phil Puleo)
5. Pyramid (feat. Thor Harris)
6. Get That Felt Feeling
7. What’s This for Funny
8. Forthwith
9. Immured
10. Wet Nurse
11. I Wanna Die

We Owe ‘Major Inconvenience’ album artwork