At Devil Dirt Post Behind the Scenes Video for “Mommy”
“Mommy” is one of several tracks on At Devil Dirt‘s Plan B: Sin Revolución no hay Evolución where, once you’ve heard it a few times, all you need to do is read the name of the song to have the chorus stuck in your head. In that regard, I’d file it with opener “Don’t See You Around,” their cover of The Beatles‘ “Across the Universe” and “There is Not a God or a Devil” among the highlights of the record, which balances personal-seeming descriptive lyrics against larger social themes on cuts like “40 Years Ago” and “People Raise Again.” They don’t get much more personal than “Mommy” and short of trotting out old family photos, the duo of guitarist/vocalist Néstor “Gato” Ayala and drummer Francisco “Hongo” Alvarado get about as deep as one might ask with a behind-the-scenes look at the recording process itself.
The clip, aside from being a well-edited look at At Devil Dirt constructing what I consider their best and most accomplished work to date, gives an engaging look at the intimacy of a duo in the recording studio. Early on, we see Ayala and Alvarado putting the track to tape. The mic is set up so that the two face each other, and though there are obviously more than one layer of vocals at work in the finished product of the song, to even have that basis of a live-tracked version makes a difference in terms of how it’s built. As lush as the album is at points, it maintains that natural feel, and if the video is an excuse to revisit the full-length, I’m glad enough to have one.
Bilocation Records will reportedly have a vinyl version of Plan B: Sin Revolución no hay Evolución out soon. More on that as I hear it, but in the meantime, enjoy:
At Devil Dirt, “Mommy” official video
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