Makeshift Art Bar Share Animated Video, Announce New EP ‘Marionette’

The silence around Makeshift Art Bar is deliberate. Ask the Belfast four-piece to account for the punishing noise they produce and they’d rather you didn’t. That reluctance to explain, to justify, or to soften the edges has become a quiet hallmark. Now they return with a handcrafted animated video for a song recorded during the sessions for their last album and news of a second EP, ‘Marionette’, arriving shortly.

The visual is a year-in-the-making piece of animation, assembled frame by frame with the kind of obsessive attention that mirrors the band’s own relationship with sound. The track itself is a salvaged remnant from previous recording sessions, a fragment that didn’t make the first cut but now finds its place. There is no grand narrative attached. The band offer no clarifying statements, no thematic breakdown. The work simply arrives.

Makeshift Art Bar have spent their short tenure making some of the most punishing noise that stays on the right side of actively enjoyable. It’s a controlled demolition, precise even at its most volatile. The new material on ‘Marionette’ pushes further into that tension, fielding big questions and batting nearly all of them back. What remains is the sound itself, unadorned and unconcerned with being understood.