Iguana Post “Rites of Passages” Video; Live Dates Announced
There’s inevitably a point in Iguana‘s new video where you’re going to ask if they’re screwing with you. And yeah, they kind of are. “Rites of Passages” comes from Iguana‘s most recent studio album, 2019’s Translational Symmetry (review here), and is instrumental in its entirety. How, then, do you do a lyric video? I guess you’ll have to watch and find out. I refuse to spoil it.
Iguana have a few choice live dates coming up, including appearances at Alterna Sounds this weekend and Krach am Bach in August — both enviable lineups — along with a Tonzonen fest later in the year. You can see below the righteousness of the company the four-piece are keeping, and I think that speaks to their beyond somewhat underrated in the sphere of Euro psych-prog. Maybe that’s true of the whole microgenre, but Iguana have been at it one way or the other for 20 years now and it seems only fair to celebrate that, let alone the actual quality of the work they’ve done in that time, particularly in the last decade as they’ve moved toward and into the style of the aforementioned latest LP.
Bottom line is it seems to me as an outside observer that this is a better band than people know. Perhaps all the more for their willingness to delve into the absurd as they do in the video here. That’s my piece and I’ve said it.
Maybe something to keep in mind while you enjoy the clip here, or maybe not. I can’t control these things.
Either way, more info from the band follows, as well as their appearances for the next few months:
Iguana, “Rites of Passages” official video
It feels more than banal these days, sometimes inappropriate, to make music, play concerts and release videos. There are far more important things, let’s take a look at the world and the neighboring crisis areas. Nevertheless, Iguana will release another video single from their current record “Translational Symmetry” with “Rites Of Passages” on March 31, 2022 – as a short escapism, as a short, psychedelic escape, as a short smile in dark times, so to speak. If you also activate the inserted subtitles of the YouTube video, the ironic Dadaism will hopefully be able to conjure up a little smile on the face of every karaoke friend. And after that we get back to the important things!
With “Rites Of Passages” Iguana release the third video from their current record “Translational Symmetry”. Contrary to the gloomy lyrics of the album, the song is a sunny, almost 9-minute ode to wild psych rock riffs and sprawling kraut jams of days gone by. Absolutely unsuitable for radio on the one hand. And on the other hand, still catchy, fresh and danceable. Even suitable for singalong! Because the subtitles of the video radiate karaoke potential. Too bad, that “Rites Of Passages” is a pure instrumental song ;) and with that the subtitles become an ironic, dadaistic deconstruction of the song.
Tourdates:
02.04.2022 – Münster, Sputnikhalle, Alterna Sounds Fest, w. Mythic Sunship, Temple Fang
06.08.022 – Beelen, Krach am Bach Festival, w. All Them Witches, Witch, Rotor, Kanaan
29.10.2022 – Krefeld, Tonzonen Labelnight, w. Glasgow Coma Scale, The Spacelords
Iguana is:
Alexander Lörinczy | Vocals, Guitar, Synthesizer
Alexander May | Bass
Robert Meier | Drums
Thomas May | Guitar, Synthesizer
