ICYMI is a series featuring new and notable releases you (and we) may have missed
Art by Enne Goldstein, you can find more of their work here
Glove – “Personality Change”
Glove is from Tampa, and that region’s pastel colored south Florida vibe casts an aesthetic tint over the visuals for the band’s video for their latest single. But don’t mistake this for a retirement community bop, Personality Change rides the darker side of New Wave with an icy cool precision that contrasts nicely with the soft glow visuals. Striking mannequin-like stances, the band works through the track like pros, occasionally making direct eye contact with the camera in a manner that walks a fine line between creepy and suggestive but is undeniably engaging.
Surrounded by suspended kinetic sculptures serving as visual representation of the topic at hand, vocalist Rod Woolf delivers deadpan musings on wearing one’s personality like a fashion. Like the kinetic sculptures, you’re always made of the same pieces but depending on the angle the presentation is completely different and always shifting with the slightest movement of air. Life imitating art, indeed.
— Clay Pacelli
The Murder Capital – More is Less
This is dark, but hot, and my fantasy and my nightmare all at once. I’ve overheard the youths at shows describing their taste in music as foreign men yelling at them, and The Murder Capital definitely fit that bill. I feel like the video escalates the song to break outside of that ever-growing movement though and separates it into a delightfully more disturbed category. I’m not sure if I’m empowered or relieved after watching it, but it’s a video that makes me want to give it a once over.
— Lauren Khalfayan
Jeremy and the Clones – “Late Bloomer”
Jeremy Trevino, and twin brothers Dane and Drew Giordano are Jeremy and the Clones. Their bio in Facebook has the twins as “Clone 1” and “Clone 1 (Copy)” which is pretty hilarious, and it makes me think about the secret language of twins. Hailing from St. Petersburg the crew shares “Late Bloomer”, a manic and fun track filled with aggressive percussion, loose bass lines and a fast and easy rhythm that just gets stuck in your head. The video for “Late Bloomer” is an inevitable sweaty dance with self-disintegration and madness, even when they’re barking that ‘Everything is going to be ok / Everything is going to be alright’.
— Lola Pistola