21 November 2017 - 0 Comments

Hamilton band DateMonthYear has released a new single which delivers a strong message with its hard-hitting lyrics, music and video.

Band Founder Trevor Faville said the new song, calledMarch, eludes to the idea of going through the process of grief and loss.

Faville and fellow band members Emma Koretz, Brooke Baker, Hayely Schwass and Tyler Leet worked with local production team Bad George to produce and film their music video in Hamilton.

Bad George production team were award nominees at the HP 48 Hour Film Festival, with Brooke Baker – who is a band member as well as production crew – nominated for the best director and best female director, along with Jay Baker who was nominated for best scriptwriter.

After gaining accolades in local and national film competitions, March is Bad George’s first foray into the work of music videos and the band members are pleased with the result for their latest song release.

“The song itself is quite different to our last one, musically,” Faville said.

“It’s a lot more dramatic and has dynamic changes involved.

“It’s something more of a big rock song. It is a completely different topic lyrically but probably just as intense.”

The band embraced the unconventional with their most recent single Numbers, which was a video-only release as a teaser of what’s to come from their album. After the online success of the widely played Numbers video, the song has been well received worldwide with international airplay in France, Mexico, USA and United Kingdom.

The song Numbers reflects on today’s society and how people’s lives revolve around numbers – those of your mortgage or rent, income, supermarket shopping and simply hoping that you have enough to pay for groceries and bills each week.

Shunning traditional band formats, DateMonthYear’s structure means that “commitment is defined by contribution” with allowance for new ideas and influence. The fluidity of the line-up ensures a smorgasbord of musical flavours.

Faville describes their music as pop melodies, rock dynamics and a movie cinematic atmosphere.

“That’s the best description. Technically it’s rock music, but it’s a little bit more than that,” Faville said.

The next project, after releasing March is to work on releasing their album. Faville said the album isn’t full of happy lyrics, instead the songs speak of issues that need to be spoken about, rather than songs that provide a distraction from what is going on in the world.

“They’re not unified by one particular theme, but what we’re trying to do specifically is to make sure we don’t waste any tracks and trying to make sure that every song has something to say.” 

Check out DateMonthYear’s new song March on Spotify, the band’s Facebook page and YouTube channel, or purchase it from iTunes and datemonthyear.bandcamp.com.

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