Directed by vocalist Sera Timms, who also takes on the role of ‘Mother Death’ — you’ll know her when you see her — the new Ides of Gemini video for “Heroine’s Descent” follows suit from the song itself in providing and impressionistic and ritualized sensibility. The song comes from the band’s newly-released third album, Women (discussed here), and has an almost unfinished vibe. Led by guitarist J. Bennett‘s riff and punctuated by Timms‘ vocal repetitions, it rolls atop the fluid rhythm from bassist Adam Murray and drummer Scott Batiste into this chanting progression and then, well, it’s over.

This notion of something being incomplete — in the case of the video, it looks like it’s a life — speaks to the challenge that the record as a whole poses to its listeners in shaking expectations for what songs are and what they can and should do. Atmospherics are central to this and of course “Heroine’s Descent” has plenty to offer on that level as well, aurally as well as visually. In the clip, we see a death ritual playing out — Timms is both ‘Mother Death’ and in the coffin itself, and if you’re wondering who the fourth pallbearer is alongside Bennett, Murray and Batiste, it’s producer Sanford Parker, who helmed the recording of Women — and the ambience is no less resonant, but the truth is the track is just a piece of the whole impression the album makes.

That is to say, it’s a hard record for choosing what one usually thinks of as “singles” from, since a lot of the material feeds into each other, as “Heroine’s Descent” does in leading to the sharp-cuts of “Swan Diver,” which follows. Still, short of making a 43-minute video for the entirety of Women, Ides of Gemini do well in representing the feel and scope of the outing here and that seems like all one could reasonably ask.

Women came out at the end of last week on Rise Above Records. More info on the clip follows, courtesy of the PR wire.

Please enjoy:

Ides of Gemini, “Heroine’s Descent” official video

Taken from the album, Women, released worldwide April 28th 2017.

Directed by Sera Timms
Director of Photography: Brian Sowell
Makeup by Cristina Waltz

Where would heavy music be without singular visions and the lure of the willfully perverse? Formed in Los Angeles, California, in 2010, Ides Of Gemini have built a formidable and enigmatic reputation by stoutly refusing to conform to anyone else’s idea of what lurks in the shadows-with a sound that elegantly salutes the greats of the post-punk and proto-goth eras while simultaneously harnessing the oomph and clangor of underground metal. The ornate sparkle of something else, something irresistibly alien has long ensured that Ides Of Gemini have stood proudly alone, and yet their stately invective has clearly connected with the discerning masses.

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