[VIDEO PREMIERE] Midday Veil – Anthem
Seattle-based multimedia psych explorers (and Portable Shrines cohorts) Midday Veil have just posted an official video for “Anthem,” the second video release to accompany their debut studio album Eyes All Around, currently available via Translinguistic Other Recordings (also home to Portable Shrines Magic Sound Theatre Vol. I).
In contrast to the largely instrumental “Asymptote II,” whose kaleidoscopic, Dumb Eyes-directed video has been in circulation since last fall, “Anthem” deals with emotionally intense themes: the song is about the death of vocalist Emily Pothast‘s parents in a 2005 car accident.
The new video is comprised almost entirely of analog feedback generated by Pothast and bandmate Timm Mason (aka Mood Organ) during a recent residency at the Experimental Television Center in Owego, NY, and was edited by band member David Golightly.
Midday Veil are kicking off a tour of the Western US on May 9 at the Comet Tavern in Seattle with Cloudland Canyon, Magnog and Brain Fruit. More US dates will follow this summer.
May 9 The Comet Tavern, Seattle, WA (with Cloudland Canyon, Magnog, Brain Fruit)
May 11 Visual Arts Collective, Boise, ID (with A Story of Rats, Wolvserpent)
May 13 Rhinoceropolis, Denver, CO (with Nightshark, Décollage)
May 14 The Kosmos, Albuquerque, NM (with Shoulder Voices, Phantom Lake)
May 15 Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios, Denton, TX (with Peopleodian, Lucretia Borgia)
May 16 Emo’s, Austin, TX (with No Mas Bodas, OS OVNI, Chris Catalena)
May 18 Sound Kontrol, Phoenix, AZ (with Otra Mundo)
May 19 Public Fiction, Los Angeles, CA
May 20 The Fuzzplex, Oakland, CA (with Moccretro, Janina Angel Bath)
