Artist:TQX

Pop music is the most accessible art form. In the hands of the mysterious anonymous collective TourniquetX, it’s been weaponised, made to challenge and disrupt the status quo. TourniquetX’s debut single ‘The Day That You Moved On’, is an impassioned song co-written with, and featuring, the voice of another pop saboteur, Sia – the award-winning singer-songwriter who’s worked with everyone from Zero 7 to Beck, Kendrick Lamar to Angel Haze. With Sia’s soulful tones, plangent piano and a dramatic sweep of drums and guitars, it’s worthy of a spy thriller soundtrack. A haunting song on the raw vulnerability of human attachment, when you view the VIDEO, the plot thickens. In a twisted futuristic world, humanity and technology melt together. A surrogate Sia merges with another woman to become the TourniquetX avatar. It’s a virtual creation designed to reframe pop culture and suggest a political, philosophical, and cultural rethink. “As an artist famed for questioning attitudes towards ...