Singer-songwriter Lawrence Rothman twists and contorts in today's tortured collaboration with director Floria Sigismondi. Signed to the filmmaker's label Mamaroma Records, this latest release is Rothman’s third collaboration with the director, and it continues the pair's shared penchant for darkness following the stylish and haunting “Montauk Fling.” “It’s a lot like a lucid dream,” says Rothman of his collaborator’s signature dark style that has featured in era-defining music videos for David Bowie, Björk and Marilyn Manson, that here moves away from elaborate set constructions, focusing instead on a portrait of the star in a hellish incarnation. The song was recorded on an antique piano that once belonged to illusionist Harry Houdini. “It had what looked to be very old blood stains on the lower octave keys,” says Rothman of the inherited piece, which was mysteriously ruined by a flood two days after the song was recorded, its dark history inspiring the track's tragic tale. “I imagined some old-school maestro or even Houdini himself howling his guts out over a fatal loss until his fingers bled.”