Cream Premiere: Lambda Celsius Looks Through the Mirror in 'Age of Anxiety' [Fresh Vid]

During the past few years, it's been fascinating to watch the evolution of Ann Catherine Carter's music project Λ°C (also known as Lambda Celsius, formerly known as Lavender). Before she started making music, Carter was a painter and sculptor, and was formerly co-curator of the Wedgewood-Houston art gallery The Packing Plant (a different gallery called Mild Climate is now in its place).

That helps her bring a different perspective to her music than you might get from someone who's focused solely on pop music — a very cool thread to have in your scene. As Carter has shifted her focus from funky noise toward post-punk and electronic pop, she's continued to work with the idea of taking rigid, grid-like structures and bending them out of their manufactured shape and into something organic. 

She's released a slew of singles, demo recordings and EPs, and the full-length Lambda Celsius dropped in June (we got a taste of it back in April at Drkmttr's grand reopening). One of the record's standout tracks is "Age of Anxiety," which examines a person's power to alter their image and the forces that might cause them to want to — "Don't remember me as who I am, but who I pretend to be," she sings. Carter has shot, directed and edited a music video for the piece. It uses some interesting manipulations of perspective to reinforce the point about the manipulation of images, and we're very pleased to premiere it today — check it out above.