Vienna based songwriter, producer, and illustrator Anna Kohlweis, or more commonly known as Squalloscope, shared a visual for her song, “Hate Cake,” which premiered on Noisey. The track is off her fifth studio album, Exoskeletons for Children.
Squalloscope has been praised as “a multi-talented artist” by Red Bull Music Academy Radio and “trippy” by New Canadian Music. Exoskeletons for Children was written over the course of two years and was inspired when Anna temporarily moved back into her parent’s home. Indiecurrent says, “The forthcoming LP plays like a scrapbook of disparate memories and teases an impressive range of musical ideas spanning from experimental electro-pop to wayward indie rock.”
Squalloscope says about the song:
“Hate Cake started with a drunken note in my phone that just said, ‘abyss mall fountain / donut / puking through the hole’. The song became about living life between wanting to be aggressively optimistic and seeing how easy it is to feed people reasons to hate someone or something, because hating things just seems to be their default state of mind. It’s a fun song. It’s about having a fit of laughter while being eaten from the inside. It’s about being terrified down to the bone while rehearsing cute poses in front of the bathroom mirror. The video is a happy bubblegum-colored homage to online makeup tutorials, which are very useful, but also carry all the strange promises of makeup brands with them: make your pores smaller! make your pores disappear! get rid of those circles under your eyes! erase wrinkles! make your face look blurry! i decided to make myself extra beautiful for the internet and made my face disappear.”
