Strange Fruit blur reality in music video for new single ‘Monopolar’

Strange Fruit have shared the music video for their new single, ‘Monopolar’, the second track to emerge from their upcoming EP ‘Drips’.

The release from the Jakarta-based band offers a clearer picture of where they're headed sonically, leaning further into electronic structures while keeping their instinct for atmosphere intact.

At its core, “Monopolar” is driven by rhythm and texture. Repeating synth patterns, warm low-end pulses, and gently insistent motorik beats give the track a steady, almost physical flow.

The electronic elements feel deliberately and meticulously shaped rather than maximal, drawing on early synth and kosmische traditions, modular tones, and subtle digital artefacts. Airy vocals glide through and surface as fragments, treated with tremolo and filtering in a way that feels integrated with the instrumentation rather than simply placed on top of it.

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The music video, directed by filmmaking duo Mellow Spice follows the same sensibility.

“The music video really captures what the song is about. When we spoke with Mellow Splice, they immediately understood that it centres on absurdity; on that feeling of not being able to get a grip on anything. It’s about dreams and reality blurring into one. Just like in the video, you can’t quite tell which is which. For me, the absurdity captured on camera perfectly reflects how I’ve always envisioned the song,” explains Strange Fruit vocalist and co-founding member Baldi Calvianca to Mixmag Asia.

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Expanding on how they translated the track’s emotional core into visuals, Mellow Splice share with Mixmag Asia: “The journey inward feels like drifting through hidden corridors of your own mind, where every memory echoes and every emotion glows a little differently. The deeper you go, the more the walls dissolve, and suddenly your thoughts stretch wider than you ever knew they could. In learning your wounds, you begin to see the patterns of the world. In accepting your shadows, the horizon inside you expands. And somewhere in that quiet, endless space, you realise you were never just becoming. You were unfolding, returning, and meeting a wiser version of yourself that was always waiting to be found.”

Blurred, surreal visuals and soft-focus cinematography create a hazy, cinematic space that moves slowly and fluidly. Images of the Indian Ocean merge with optical distortion, giving the impression of suspension and disorientation (in the best possible way).

Watch below.

Amira Waworuntu is Mixmag Asia’s Managing Editor, follow her on Instagram.

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