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BUS Post “Moonchild” Video

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To my shame, I didn’t put up a list of the year’s best album covers for 2019, but if I had, I promise you that the painting adorning BUS‘ label-debut for RidingEasy RecordsNever Decide (review here), would’ve been on there. I spoke about it as well in the review, but it bears repeating not the least so I can point out that the record’s appeal goes well beyond its visual accompaniment. The band’s swinging take on a classic-heavy fuzz blowout is well represented in their somewhat manic animated video for “Moonchild” — not to be confused with the King Crimson track — and unless you’re hesitant to engage flashing color changes and things of that sort, I can only advise you commit to the required couple of minutes and dig in. Hell, it’s a holiday week. You’ve got the time.

Speaking of time, the timing of the clip is somewhat curious. Never Decide was an early-2019 release, relatively speaking — it came out Feb. 28 — so as the video arrived on the precipice of 2020 it’s not that the LP was so old as to be irrelevant, but if the promotional intent might’ve been to remind people at the end of the year that the album was out there, it seems like earlier in December probably would’ve made more sense. Who the hell knows what kind of delays may have been faced — I’ve never animated anything in my life, but my understanding is it takes more than five minutes to do — or what other plans they might announce to come in 2020. Either way, on what’s a pretty quiet week for rock and roll — much as such a thing exists — I’m happy to have something new to watch. Hell, maybe that was the idea all along. If so, it worked.

PR wire info for Never Decide follows here.

Enjoy:

BUS, “Moonchild” official video

Athens, Greece quartet Bus The Unknown Secretary (aka BUS) share the first video from their recently released debut album on RidingEasy Records today.

Never Decide was recorded in just 5 days in February 2018 with multitalented engineer and band’s beloved friend John Vulgaris at Electric Highway Studios in Athens, Greece. The entire band — drummer Aris Fasoulis, bassist Spiros Papadatos, and guitarists Fotis Kolokithas and Politis –recorded the instrumental tracks live in 3 days, reserving the last 2 for vocals. Over the 2 months that followed Vulgaris and the band fine-tuned the mix into the subtle and clever masterwork you have before you.

BUS formed in Athens in 2011, releasing two EPs and a full length The Impious Tapes, followed by The Cross EP (2014), and The Unknown Secretary LP in 2016. During that time the band has toured extensively throughout Greece and in neighboring nations. Never Decide will see them expanding that touring radius considerably.

BUS is:
Aris Fasoulis on Drums.
Bill “City” Politis on Vox & Guitars.
Spiros ”Chob” Papadatos on Bass Guitar.
Fotis Kolokithas on Guitars.

BUS, Never Decide (2019)

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