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Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate release AI video for Back Where I Started

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UK prog duo Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate will release new album The Confidence Trick in the New Year

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UK prog duo Hat's Off Gentlemen It's Adequate have released an AI generated animated video for new song Back Where I Started, which you can watch below.

Back Where I Started is taken from the band's upcoming album The Confidence Trick, due to be released on their independent label Glass Castle Recordings in 2022.

The video was made by singer/multi-instrumentalist of the band Malcolm Galloway using animations of video art created using the artificial intelligence art generator NightCafe Studio. The AI uses text prompts to create new images. The band have explored issues relating to artificial intelligence in previous albums.

"The song is sung from the perspective of a time-traveller who is trying to correct a past mistake, but keeps going back and making things worse,"explains Galloway.

Jerry Ewing
Jerry Ewing

Writer and broadcaster Jerry Ewing is the Editor of Prog Magazine which he founded for Future Publishing in 2009. He grew up in Sydney and began his writing career in London for Metal Forces magazine in 1989. He has since written for Metal Hammer, Maxim, Vox, Stuff and Bizarre magazines, among others. He created and edited Classic Rock Magazine for Dennis Publishing in 1998 and is the author of a variety of books on both music and sport, including Wonderous Stories; A Journey Through The Landscape Of Progressive Rock.