Just in time for the Halloween season, the members of Smoke Season released a minimalist synth pop cover of one of my favorite Talking Heads songs “Psycho Killer” in which Wortman’s sultry vocals are paired with cascading layers of shimmering synths, glitchy and stuttering drum programming and wobbling low end. And while the Talking Heads version conveyed a tense and anxious neurosis, the Smoke Season version makes losing one’s mind and killing darkly sexy — much like the visuals for the song, which features Wortman and Rosen dressed in tuxedos with scenes of modern dancers, dancing to the song, footage of trees coming into and out of shadow and the like.
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New Video: Smoke Season’s Short Film-Like Visuals for “Loose”
Since their formation in early 2013, Los Angeles-based duo Smoke Season, comprised of Gabrielle Wortman (vocals, keyboards) and Jason Rosen (guitar, backing vocals) have quickly built up a local and national profile for a sound that meshes elements […]
New Videos: Yassou’s Hauntingly Gorgeous and Dream-like Multimedia EP
Hopefully, if you’ve been frequenting JOVM enough, especially over the past three or four months or so, you may recall that I’ve written about the San Francisco-based quintet Yassou. Originally named Yassou Benedict, the quintet comprised […]
New Video: The Dark and Creepy Sounds and Visuals for Yassou’s “Fall Again”
Compared of Lilie Bytheway Hoy (lead vocals, bass), James Jackson (guitar, drums, vocals), A.J. Krumholz (guitar, keys, vocals), Patrick Aguirre (drums) and Theo Quimby (drums, piano, vocals), the quintet Yassou originally formed in upstate New York and are currently […]