Inside the Cage: Spinors on Their New Single
Spinors are a London-based alternative rock band with a steampunk streak and a name borrowed from quantum physics. A spinor is a particle property that stays undefined until someone observes it, and the band's idea is that their music works the same way: it becomes whatever you bring to it.
Founded by Argentine singer and guitarist Sergie Code, who moved to the UK to take his music to a wider audience, the band pairs heavily distorted guitars with choruses made for singing along. Gabe Scapigliati (bass) and Cristina Pucci (drums) join him live on a UK tour of 22-plus dates, running through 2026 and into 2027.
"You Loved The Cage", their third single, came out on 7 October. It follows two people who hold each other up inside the same cage until one of them breaks free. Told from one side it's a song about abandonment, but the video, shot in Lincoln and London, tells a more complicated story. We asked the band about it.
🎤 The cage is the center of this song. Where did that image come from, and when did you know it was the right way to tell this story?
When I was thinking about the literary devices to use in the song, I wanted to take the dramatization to the extreme as a metaphor for substance abuse or toxic behaviours, and I realised that a CAGE and, of course, CHAINS were the perfect elements. I think they're important visual aids that create a sense of confinement, claustrophobia and more, which are essential to establishing why this couple were together in the first place. Their relationship was a circumstantial matter of survival, a love deeply rooted in their circumstances, and when those circumstances changed, their feelings changed too. I think it's a bold but powerful choice.
🎤 The title says "you loved the cage." Who loved it, and what was there to love about being stuck?
The title of the song comes from a longer phrase in the lyrics, which is "You loved the cage until you wanted more and now that you're free you don't love me anymore". The point here is that, according to the narrator, the love between the couple was only temporary and circumstantial, and the narrator feels betrayed and used because when the unfavourable circumstances changed, that love faded away, leaving the other person behind. This is the narrator's point of view in the song, but in the video, things aren't quite that straightforward, as we also get the other person's perspective, and even though there's a dark plot twist at the end, it adds a lot more information.
🎤 The lyrics tell it as abandonment, but the video adds addiction, so there's no clear victim any more. Was that second layer planned from the start, or did it appear while you were making the video?
I've always had this idea of multiple layers and different points of view, not just in music, but I always try to explore an idea as deeply as possible. In this case, I developed the idea of the other perspectives when I started thinking about the music video. The narrator of the song talks about feeling abandoned by the other person when circumstances changed for the better, but the video shows that they were both in a toxic relationship involving substance abuse, and when they both go through rehab, the other person decides to turn their life around rather than continue living that empty and negative life, so it's no longer so clear who the villain is. However, there's a final plot twist that makes you rethink who's actually free and who's not, as the guy starts dating the therapist, which means the self-destructive behaviour is still there. All of this could be explored in much more depth, but I think the beautiful thing is that each listener can fill in the story with their own experiences and draw their own conclusions.
🎤 Steampunk isn't the obvious look for an alternative rock band. How do the cages, chains and brass connect to what the song is about, and why does this story need that world?
Steampunk is a style that fascinates me, and it has been part of this project from the very beginning. What allows it to be so distinctive and fantastical is that you can use so many literary devices to talk about reality indirectly, through metaphors or artistic elements that can be associated with real life, making the criticism and situations less obvious and adding that extra layer that allows anyone to relate to them while experiencing them as something expressive rather than painfully close to home. That distance is healthy for the viewer and allows them to take in the whole scenario I'm presenting, which is obviously connected to reality but framed in a fictional setting that makes it easier to explore these ideas without them feeling too close to everyday life.
🎤 The narrator lists everything they did: the shoulder to lean on, the walking when the other was limping, the reassurance. How far should we trust that version of events?
The narrator of the song is clearly hurt by everything that happened, and their perspective is deeply emotional, so they have a very self-centred view of the situation, where all the effort they put into the relationship and all the sacrifices they made for the future they once envisioned together now seem to have been a waste of time and a huge betrayal by someone they saw a future with. It was an all-or-nothing gamble, and yet it didn't work out. Clearly, this isn't a perspective you can entirely trust, because it comes from a place of resentment and from someone whose heart has been broken.
🎤 Your name comes from something that stays undefined until it's observed. With a video that has no clear villain, did you want viewers to take sides, and which side would you pick yourself?
I absolutely loved this question because it gets right to the heart of the magic I want to convey through the band, creating scenarios that express an idea or an emotion and bringing together every musical, stylistic, and visual resource possible to dramatize and exaggerate a situation, sparking that debate and allowing everyone to complete the idea with their own experiences, or, speaking in quantum terms, their own "observation", and "collapse reality" into whatever they can relate to. That's exactly the idea, not to be clear-cut or take everything for granted, but quite the opposite, to create a whole lot of uncertainty around an idea so that everyone can put themselves in the position they relate to the most, and if that sparks a debate, that's fantastic to me. I clearly have my own perspective, but I like to leave things open to interpretation so the magic remains intact!
🎤 Besides the couple, the video has a Therapist, a character called Deadline and a Countess. Who are they in this story?
We have so much footage that we had to cut the video down, so some of the ideas aren't as clear as they could be, and we're actually going to release some additional material over the next few weeks to expand the story and provide a bit more context. The couple and the therapist are the main characters in the story, but Deadline, the young girl with the Kubrick stare in the video, plays the role of a "demon" inside the protagonists' minds, Countess represents experience and maturity, and the other characters are demons and other ideas, while I'm also living in that fantastical world and singing this song. The extended versions of the video will explore in much more depth how the guy ends up with the therapist and how the demons interact in other scenes through the plague doctor who appears at certain points. A music video lasts four minutes or less, which sometimes means finding a more artistic solution to tell the story, and I think social media will give me the opportunity to expand on the idea, so I'm going to take advantage of that to keep telling the story!
🎤 People from Lincoln were invited to take part in the video. Can you tell us about some of them and what taking part meant to them?
A week before filming the video, I attended one of the biggest STEAMPUNK events in the UK, called Asylum, in Lincoln, and I fell in love with the city. I obviously changed the plans so that, alongside the couple's story, we could capture plenty of footage of Lincoln to give the video a stronger steampunk presence, and I invited people from the community groups to take part. It turned out to be one of the best decisions of my life because the people were absolutely wonderful.
An incredible thing that happened was that three of the participants reached out to me with messages that really moved me. Countess, played by a lady called Sandra, told me that she used to be a rocker when she was younger and that she really missed being part of a project like this. She also told me that another participant who uses a wheelchair had really benefited from the experience too, and that they were both happy to have been given the opportunity, so it meant a lot to me to hear that. On the other hand, the youngest participant, who ended up playing an important role in the video, had been going through a difficult time. I found out through a message from her mother that she was dealing with some tough personal issues. Being part of the video had really brightened her life and helped her get through a dark period. Stories like these are what keep me going and motivate me to keep putting everything into my artistic career, and they make me happy to continue pursuing this path.
🎤 The chorus is easy to sing along to, but it's about being left behind, and the song ends on a repeated "no more". How did you want that to feel: anger, relief, or something else?
Yes, clearly, the "no more" is like the climax of the song, where the narrator, who has a broken heart, says... ENOUGH, I don't trust anymore, I don't want this anymore... it's clearly anger and resentment, and that intense emotion that comes with wanting to turn the page, but it's still so recent and raw, so in anger, they say "no more".
🎤 With Stockport and Bristol coming up on the tour, what happens in the room when you play this one live?
This song opens the show, and I think it's a great choice because the riff allows us to kick things off with tons of energy and a heavy sound, along with all the steampunk elements, so within just a few seconds, we can communicate what the band and the show are all about. It's a really important way to make our intentions clear from the very beginning and then develop the show with our other songs. We have lots of shows coming up in the UK, Europe, Canada, Japan and Australia, so we're really excited! Thank you so much for the interview!
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