Human Resources *UK*

“London’s Human Resources are grabbing you by your white collar and spitting stentorian post-punk prayers” So Young Magazine

Hot on the heels of debut single '‘Unverifiable Religious Experience Blues”, London’s Human Resources share it’s post-apocalyptic music video.

Imagining a time where it’s left to the hands of sales excecutives to restore the world’s depleted food production levels, director James Moss explains::“When we were formulating the vid, I was struck by the almost apocryphal tensions in Harry's lyrics, these visions of the divine peppered throughout mundane work-life felt like omens to me. I wanted to come up with something that built off that and off HR's corporate-absurdity schtick.

“I’ve thought for ages that one of the most apocalyptic logics that capitalism has (amongst its many) is the fact that if capital accumulation and growth was left truly unhindered, as many proponents desire, then food and agriculture would lose all its government intervention and this 'volatile' industry would fall to pieces - which, as mentioned in the title cards, is something that's already happening. So the vid is a cartoon depiction of this logic pushed to the extreme, it depicts a self-destructive endgame scenario where food has lost all cultural and economic value in the eyes of shareholders, and consequently the public. So we watch ad-men desperately attempting to reinvigorate the market whilst they starve and lose their minds - all the while trying to keep up strict entrepreneurial appearances. It's a farce, but its suffused with some radical and satirical metaphors, and the biblical re-emerges in this apocalyptic vision to meet the lyrics of the tune, with various symbols and framings and patterns presenting both revelations and tongues-esque-babble amongst the hyper capitalist chaos - plus, this whole conceit allowed us to come up with loads of silly corporate-culture roasting jokes, which was hard to pass up."

Describing themselves as “A South London startup focusing on performance driven management solutions”, Human Resources employ the sterile jargon of office existence to skewer and poke fun at the encroaching corporatisation of everyday life and social relations. Akin to the likes of underground favourites Hotel Lux and The Cool Greenhouse, the band play the nuances of  surreal social commentary against a backdrop of undiluted post-punk immediacies to construct their immersive lyrical landscapes.

The band can already boast support from key indie tastemakers So Young, BBC Introducing, Wax, and Post-Brexit Pop, having performed alongside such prestigious acts as The Last Dinner Party, LICE, Jealous and For Breakfast in their native London.

Human Resources are Matt Baker (Guitar), Harry Handford (Vocals, guitar, synth), Colin Olive (drums) Leo Dutton (bass)