Soft People zeigen uns das neue Video zu ihrer Single „Berenstein“
Bereits Anfang November erschien das Debütalbum „American Men“ von Soft People. Jetzt präsentiert uns das Projekt um die beiden Musiker Caleb Nichols und John Metz das neue Video zur Single „Berenstein“.
Das Duo, das sich selbst als „America’s Best Gay Socialist Band“ bezeichnet und seinen Stil als „early Midlake having a baby with Broadcast and Clinic and Deerhoof and Boards of Canada“ bezeichnet, liefert mit „American Men“ einen düsterem Kommentar zur amerikanischen Kultur ab.
Über den Song sagt Nichols: „The song is one of two really personal tracks on the album, and is about longing for a utopian past that probably never existed but feels real anyway, like a film. The feeling I’m trying to get to is similar, perhaps to Anemoia, in that even our past is something we’ve only experienced as a pang of longing from the present. The only image I’ll discuss at all is the projection of Edward Munch’s excellent print ‚Towards The Forest II‘.
I created a gif of the print from several different versions, and then we were able to project it on the screen, which I thought looked really beautiful. John and I saw this work in person at the Neue Gallerie in the New York in 2016 as part of an exhibition on Munch’s printmaking that actually made me cry. I’m not sure what it is about this particular print, but it struck a very primal chord in me, and ‚Berenstein‘ is inspired very much by that image, as is the track ‚Baby‘ on our record, which immediately follows.“
Tracklist:
01. 16 Years Of Somewhere Else
02. American Men
03. Daddy
04. Berenstein
05. Baby
06. Georgia Reel
07. Alchemy Of Male Feelings
08. Man With A Gun
09. Golden Age Of Television
10. Brood VI
11. Think Piece
12. New Kampf
Soft People: American Men
Vö: 07.11.2017 / e.V.