Petit Mal’s Crisis In The Credit System is the first (and only) great pop song about the financial crisis. Combining an elegiac-compulsive piano riff, twanging synths and waves of spooked electronics with sparse, melancholy vocals this is a unique and addictive electro anthem for the end of capitalism as we know it. Emusic, iTunes, Myspace.

Petit Mal, AKA Ben Seymour and Melanie Gilligan, fuse ’80s synth pop and ’00s electronica to create emotional, intelligent and irresistible new music. Poetic, oblique and compelling, Crisis in the Credit System collides a Pet Shop Boys-style pop drama with autistic vocal repetition a la Lora Logic and ends up somewhere completely unique and contemporary.

Crisis in the Credit System was written four years before the credit crunch, when Petit Mal became obsessed with the mysteries of the global financial system. Given the increasing presence of economics in culture and of culture in the economy, Melanie decided it would be interesting to make a pop song based on a prophecy of financial apocalypse.

Crisis in the Credit System is featured in a 4-part fictional film of the same name that Melanie has scripted and directed, released online September 29th. Making the connections between ‘Northern Rock’ and ‘Das Kapital’, the film fuses philosophy and The Financial Times with an original soundtrack and extra dialogue from Ben.

Ben and Melanie already have a cult following as members of London musical collective Antifamily.