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Glowsun Make Good with the B-Roll in New Video for “Lost Soul”

Fresh off a quick tour that included a stop at the Up in Smoke fest in Switzerland on Oct. 5, French trio Glowsun have unveiled a new video for the song “Lost Soul.” Taken from their Napalm Records debut, 2012’s Eternal Season, the track also appeared on their 2011 split with German megajammers Electric Moon (review here) and is a tonally rich, warm trip through much of what’s most enjoyable about modern European heavy psych, capturing both a free-flowing aural spirit and a precise sense of build throughout its relatively-brief under-five-minute course. The three-piece of Johan Jaccob (guitar), Ronan Chiron (bass) and Fabrice Cornille (drums), work quickly to affect a hypnotic groove without pretense, and once set on their path, they don’t waver.

Spiritually, it’s a jam, but “Lost Soul” doesn’t at all feel like it’s somewhere it doesn’t want to be. Glowsun have a few more tour dates lined up for this fall, including one at the Blue Moon fest in Germany with Monkey3, Intronaut and Grandloom, among others. Dig it:

Oct 20: Mondo Bizarro Rennes France
Oct 21: Glazart Paris France
Nov 29: Blue Moon Fest Cottbus Germany

Maybe you get to see them and maybe you don’t. Either way, you can still get a feel for what Eternal Season — which is currently in good company on my, “Why haven’t I bought this yet?” list of CDs — is about with the clip for “Lost Soul,” which doesn’t actually feature the band, but taps into some Cold War-era imagery of Chernobyl nuclear fallout and devastation thereof all the same, kind of like it’s the epilogue to everyone else’s video that shows the test footage of the Manhattan Project. Sound-wise, Glowsun operate in a similar heavy psych sphere as their Napalm labelmates My Sleeping Karma, with just an overwhelming touch of fuzz that pervaded the first Sungrazer album. As you can hear below, it’s not a combination to be ignored.

Enjoy:

Glowsun, “Lost Soul” official video

Glowsun on Thee Facebooks

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3 Responses to “Glowsun Make Good with the B-Roll in New Video for “Lost Soul””

  1. Slevin says:

    One-point perspective.

  2. Slevin says:

    Turn the volume down first:

    http://vimeo.com/48425421

    Worth it for the cross cutting of Nicholson approaching the Gold Room in the Shining with the guy approaching the desk in Barry Lyndon, about halfway through.

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