With their Eliott Selwood-produced debut EP Creature Lies, the Rouen/Paris-based indie outfit Isolation — We Hate You Please Die‘s former frontman Raphaël Balzary, Julien, Lounès and Cheap Teen‘s Cyprien — have crafted material that draws from punk, pop, garage rock and post-punk. Thematically, the EP’s material takes a look at society’s perception of mental illness and the loneliness, ostracizing that can often result from suffering from mental illness.

Creature Lies EP‘s latest single “Sanism” is a sleek and brooding synthesis of post-punk, New Wave, goth and shoegaze anchored around angular guitar stabs, swirling synth textures paired with Balzary’s desperate howls. The song captures a narrator desperately trying to keep it together in a mad, mad, mad world — out of fear of reprisal, retribution and recrimination.

The accompanying video features still photos of the band, of someone on a medicine routine while on our stitched together to create a glitchy and unsettling bit of animation.