TASTE

With just weeks to go before the November 7 release of his debut album, “Broken Bones”, Guy Pearce’s second single off the record – “Taste” (on digital stores Oct 17) - is accompanied by a dazzling music video, shot on location in Tokyo during his recent filming stint in Japan.

Directed by award-winning filmmaker, Mackenzie Sheppard “Taste” is a favourite of Guy’s from the album that he says, “dives into that illusive thing called identity”.

Producer Georgina Pope scouted the six incredible locations used in the one-day shoot, each scene of the clip placing Pearce and the various characters in bizarre situations, from being tumbled about in a rotating capsule to strutting backwards through a maze of colours in an underground nightclub.

“The main idea behind the concept for Taste was creating a sense of hyper-reality”, says Sheppard, who won Young Directors Award at Cannes 2014 for Best Short Film Asia. “I wanted to take iconic – or stereotypical - Tokyo characters and put them in strange and surreal environments that would be slowly revealed throughout the video.”

In preparation for the clip, Pearce studied the song in reverse, which needed to be perfected for the shoot to go ahead. Sheppard says, “I wanted Guy to learn the song in reverse and have him move backwards through these environments to build a strange malleable atmosphere that I felt suited the song.”

Like the track itself, the clip for “Taste” builds and “becomes bolder towards the end of the song”. The clip dances the line of what is surreal and real, progressively “bending out of reality and into a surreal landscape”.

Guy Pearce’s album, “Broken Bones” will be released in Australia (CD, digital and vinyl) and NZ (digital only) through MGM Distribution on November 7, 2014.

He will perform two launch shows in Melbourne (The Toff In Town – November 12) and Sydney (The Basement – November 19).

“Taste” is a digital release, available in Australia and New Zealand from October 17, 2014.