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Sun Blood Stories Post “All the Words in Meaning” Video; Haunt Yourself Preorders Available

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One would be tempted to talk about confronting demons as regards the new Sun Blood Stories were its subject matter not so horribly human. As the Boise, Idaho, three-piece come closer to the Sept. 20 release date of their new album, Haunt Yourself — preorders are up through Bandcamp — they would seem nonetheless to be living up to the title they’ve given the record in “All the Words in Meaning,” the video for which finds vocalist/guitarist/synth-bassist Amber Pollard confronting childhood abuse through hard-hitting visual metaphor and an even-harder-hitting staredown of the camera. The song itself is duly tense and volatile, a tempest churn brought to bear amid spacious echoes that still speak of place in the way of the band’s landscape-minded earlier efforts, but is obviously turning those expanses inward here in terms of emotionalism and the sheer boldness of what’s being expressed. Pollard, joined in the band by Jon Fust (keys/drums) and Ben Kirby (guitar/bass synth/vocals), is very much at the fore here in the song, and that’s something that’s fluid throughout Haunt Yourself in terms of her interplay with Kirby on vocals, but given the intensity underpinning “All the Words in Meaning” and the rawness of soul on display, it’s a showcase of Sun Blood Stories at their most powerful and affecting.

The song itself isn’t long by any means — about four minutes — and you’ll see at the end there’s a scene were the band are sitting outside around a table. Pollard‘s child is there as well, and there’s a shot where, still holding the stuffed animal from the room where the bulk of the video takes place, Pollard turns to deliver the song’s final lines. It’s a remarkable shot. We see a mother in center-frame as protector, yet the stuffed animal reminds of the abuse suffered and the residual trauma still being carried. It seems to express the urgency of that protection as well as the fragility of the violated. With Kirby and Fust out of frame across the table, it’s just the two of them in the shot, in relief from the brightness of the outdoors space behind them, separate from it even as they’re unavoidably part of it and subject to it.

My understanding is there’s one more video to come early next month before Haunt Yourself is officially released, so I’ll keep an eye out for that, and in the meantime, you can check out “All the Words in Meaning” on the player below, followed by the background on the clip and the song from the band’s posting.

Here you go:

Sun Blood Stories, “All the Words in Meaning” official video

Pre-Order Haunt Yourself: https://sunbloodstories.bandcamp.com/album/haunt-yourself

*ABOUT THE SONG*

CW Child Abuse: “Time to get real real. This song is about my childhood. My awful childhood. My parents split when I was still a toddler. Maybe not even 2 years old yet. Around age 3, my mother started dating a man who would abuse me in every form of the word daily for the next 14 years. Escapism was my only reprise from the physical and emotional pain that was inflicted upon me. I often time found myself fantasizing about what my life could have been like if my parents had stayed together. That is what this song is about. Ben, Jon, and I just really hope this song makes you feel something. Anything. If you or someone you know is being hurt please call the National Domestic Abuse Hotline 1-800-799-7233. We love you.“ – Amber

All the Words in Meaning is the second single off of Sun Blood Stories’ long anticipated new album, Haunt Yourself, to be released September 20th, 2019 (more about the album and the band below). The music was recorded in Sun Blood Stories’ basement home studio in Boise, ID, and the vocals were recorded in Dale Hiscock’s (Endless Atlas) studio about two blocks away. All the Words in Meaning was written and recorded by Sun Blood Stories. The song was mixed and mastered by Dale Hiscock.

Directed by Thomas Newby, the Green Zoo Arts Collective, and Amber Pollard

Filmed by Thomas Newby and the Green Zoo Arts Collective

Edited by Amber Pollard

Lighting Assistant/Set Design Assistant/Official Photographer: Bethany Peterson

Original music written, performed, and recorded by Sun Blood Stories.

Shout out to George Pollard for letting us use his room and personal belongings for the setting of this music video.

Sun Blood Stories are:
Vocals, Guitar, Bass Synth / Ben Kirby
Drums, Keyboards / Jon Fust
Vocals, Slide Guitar, Bass Synth / Amber Pollard

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One Response to “Sun Blood Stories Post “All the Words in Meaning” Video; Haunt Yourself Preorders Available”

  1. Ben Cook says:

    Wow. That is a haunting song and video. I love Sun Blood Stories. It Runs Around The Room was fantastic and I really look forward to the new album.

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