Rejuvenated post-punks Cult Figures have just released the second video from their much celebrated new album, Deritend. Concrete And Glass is a deadpan meditation on London’s ever changing skyline. A lament for lost adolescence, glimpsed in the cold steel reflections of faceless urban regeneration. The video, shot during the first lockdown in April 2020, features singer Gary Jones ambling pensively across the network of elevated walkways that connect the brutalist towers of the Barbican Estate, a concrete ziggurat once voted “London’s ugliest building”. “‘Concrete and Glass’ was inspired by something my wife said while we were walking around London’s Soho. The gentrification… ‘all the buildings going up, and the buildings coming d...
