Watch: Out Chilean Singer/Beatmaker Alex Anwandter Goes Sexy & Dark for New Video

Out Chilean singer/producer/beatmaker Alex Anwandter may have not performed for the past few years due to the pandemic, but that doesn't mean he hasn't been making new music, as this dark, sexy video shows.

Out, Chilean singer/producer Álex Anwandter hasn't released a track in three years. "The hiatus had to do with the pandemic, he told Billboard in a recent interview. "Obviously, but it wasn't so much of a hiatus in the sense that I've been making this new album that I'm going to start putting out the singles."

True to his word the occasion for the interview was the release of one of them -- the video for his disco-styled, BSDM-tinged "Maricotecam," which he describes as an "ode to losing yourself on the dance floor." (In Spanish, the song's title mashes a gay slur with "discotheque.")

/Rolling Stone writes that the "Anwandter and Josefina Allen-directed video opens with Anwandter in a rundown living room, snorting a line of cocaine as he bluntly opens the song with his chorus one-liner, 'Don't look for your mom. Here, no one will save you.' It then splices scenes showing Awandter's contrasting high visions and fantasies – a light blue studio with a Seventies-esque band and, separately, a lascivious leather gym – as he sings, 'I don't know what to do anymore.'"

Rolling Stone continues that the video "is the first taste of his album to come, which he says will "explore dance culture and discothèques as the ultimate world where you can become who you really want to be."

Billboard writes that "Anwandter has always displayed his insatiable knack for dancefloor music persuasions with a riveting queer perspective – look no further than his 2011 breakout single 'Como puedes vivir contigo mismo,' which highlights New York ball culture à la 'Paris Is Burning,' or to the iridescent synths and glowing production throughout his discography, including albums like 'Amiga' (2016) and 'Latinoamericana' (2018)."

While live performances haven't been part of Anwandter's career for the past few years, he has been busy with both his own projects and producing other artists. He recently teamed up with Argentina's Juliana Gattas of electro-pop duo Miranda! fame as the producer for her upcoming debut solo album, due out next year. He is als behind Mexico's esteemed Julieta Venegas' highly anticipated eighth studio album "Tu Historia," out Friday, Nov. 11."

Rolling Stone continues that the video "is the first taste of his album to come, which he says will "explore dance culture and discothèques as the ultimate world where you can become who you really want to be." (He last released "Latinoamericana" in 2018 and "Amiga" in 2016.)

Anwandter relocated to the United States, first to Los Angeles, where he lived for two years before moving to Brooklyn. "Life is very crazy. [Laughs.] Chile is far away, but it's still intense. I think the world is an intense place, and you just have to get used to the idea. [New York] is very entertaining and I have met very special people. I really like being in a place where people from all over the world live. That's very nice for me."

Asked how he combines his various identities with his music, Anwantder was a bit pensive. "Being Chilean is not the only thing I am. I'm also Latino, and I'm part of the, quote unquote, queer community. Those identities are beginning to blur. For me it is a purpose to transcend identity politics in music. To be honest, I wanted to make a very entertaining record that was about having a good time, feeling pleasure – which is a pretty close thing to me – and in my case, in dance music. It's a less cerebral and more corporeal record."

He adds: "On the one hand, [it's important for me] to make music that I find entertaining, music that really makes me dance and have a good time – and on the other hand, to be genuine, which I always tried to cultivate. Sincerity is very important in my art. And when you combine those two things, you can read an identity, but I'm not trying to sell it.

"I find it a bit tiring that at this point in time identities have been commodified. This music has to do a little bit with getting away from discourses that don't mean much anymore. It's a little more abstract, but at the same time it's much more entertaining, dark and mysterious."

Check out these pics from Anwandter's IG: