Posts Tagged ‘The Blue Swell’

BEVERLY – ” South Collins “

Posted: December 8, 2016 in MUSIC
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Beverly the duo of Drew Citron ( The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Frankie Rose) and Scott Rosenthal, latest album, The Blue Swell. they’ve shared a video for the track “South Collins.” Directed and edited by Pitchfork the clip mingles shots of vast woodlands with footage of an eerie bar—which becomes “a wild and progressively sinister party,” according to Citron. Read her description below, and scroll down to watch the video.

I originally wrote the song “South Collins” as a noir film script, the music and lyrics describe a murder at an art deco hotel. One weekend after a friend’s wedding in the Catskills, I came across The Colonial Inn, and it was the perfect setting to film the video. It’s a 150 house replete with 150 years worth of taxidermy and tchotchkes. The place definitely had a surreal and creepy vibe, and the owner Steve was amazing. He has a friendly relationship with a brown bear named Baby, who comes into the hotel occasionally to eat leftovers, much to the dismay of the neighbors and wildlife protection service… Steve was totally down to let me and 20 of my friends take over the hotel for a weekend, and we ended up casting him as the older bartender.
The idea behind the video is that I walk into a hotel, and the sight of me triggers the bartender’s flashbacks to a nightclub singer he met decades before at the same hotel. A wild and progressively sinister party ensues. Years later he is still haunted by it – what happened that night? Director Jim Larson created the perfect look of an eerie “Twin Peaks” Shining-like world, without getting too overtly into ghost stories and the supernatural.

South Collins is from the Beverly album The Blue Swell.

 

 

BEVERLY – ” Contact “

Posted: March 10, 2016 in MUSIC
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Brooklyn based Beverly returns with new single “Contact,” a dreamy allegory about deceit and confusion.

In the summer of 2014, Beverly released “Careers,” a breakout debut album that combined raw pop, post-punk and dreamy melodies. Led by vocalist and guitarist Drew Citron, the band toured across the US and Europe supporting the Drums, as well as playing sold out headlines dates in their hometown of New York. The new album takes a bolder turn, with Citron enlisting new collaborators including noise pop producer Scott Rosenthal (The Beets, Crystal Stilts) and Kip Berman (The Pains of Being Pure at Heart). Crooked Cop was the first taste from the upcoming sophomore album out in spring 2016. now a second track Contact is from The Blue Swell out May 6th, 2016.

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The BEVERLYS – ” Victoria “

Posted: February 12, 2016 in MUSIC
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Victoria is from the album “The Blue Swell” out May 6th, Kanine Records. Psyched to premiere the glowing, dream-like Jacob Graham-directed visuals for Beverly‘s achingly beautiful new single “Victoria“, which was co-written by Kip Berman of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart. Beverly’s Drew Citron tells us over email:
The video was inspired by our friend Jacob Graham’s short movies that he creates with his brother. I watched one and immediately called him up and asked if he wanted to direct a music video. Jacob is the synth player and a songwriter in The Drums. He is the kind of person who puts real tea lights on his christmas tree, and uses electrical tape to make an Ikea cupboard look like 16th century stained glass. All the visual effects for the “Victoria” video were done by hand. A music video doesn’t have to have a narrative structure or gimmick – it can just be shapes, colors and moods. We had a lot of fun making this with him in his bedroom,

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