Blackout Post Video for “Graves”; The Horse out Now
When Brooklyn trio Blackout announced the release of their third album, The Horse (review here), they accompanied word of their new lineup and more aggressive-in-the-New-York-tradition sonic take with a stream of the track “Graves,” and now that it’s out as their second offering through RidingEasy Records, they’re following up with a video for the same song. Clearly it’s one they believe in, and in the clip, they’ve given it colorful, near-frenetic, meaty and thoroughly fucked visual accompaniment, taking the notion of what a “stoner rock” video might be and pushing it completely over the top as one could only hope they would.
I don’t know if they’re ultimately anymore aggro on The Horse than they were on their 2015 self-titled (review here) or the preceding 2013 self-release, We are Here (review here), but they’ve for sure come into their own in terms of aesthetic and songwriting, and yeah, I guess there’s an intensity to “Graves” — certainly as one sees it here — that one could attribute to Nor’easter origins. But dig into the accompanying swirl of effects in the vocals from guitarist Christian Gordy, who emerges in this clip as a kind of barbecue-driven evil cosmic guru, and there are clearly multiple impulses playing out across the song’s five-minute stretch.
Gordy is joined in Blackout by bassist Justin Sherrell and drummer Adam Taylor, who prove across The Horse to be a powerhouse of heavy nod, and “Graves” represents that well too in addition to giving a sense of the group as a whole’s offkilter persona. Clearly they’re ready to get weird, and the only question is if you’re ready to follow them down this bizarre Wonka path of low-end stomp and nightmarish psych freakout. I think you are. You probably think you are. So fucking a. Go for it.
Enjoy:
Blackout, “Graves” official video
NYC trio Blackout premiere the first video from their newly released album The Horse. The utterly insane video for “Graves” is like a bad acid trip sci-fi BBQ voodoo party gone totally right.
The Horse was recorded over 4 days in September 2016 at Spaceman Sound in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood, which the band describes as “a whirlwind session laced with loads of buds, Petey’s burgers and lipstick.”
The Horse is available on LP, CD and download as of June 23rd, 2017 via RidingEasy Records.
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